New nonprofit – TucsonSentinel.com

Another nonprofit newsroom has started up. TucsonSentinel.com launched Friday. It promises to bring news and dialogue. The site features a mix of national and international news services and a network of local correspondents covering border and immigration, local government, Tucson’s music scene, and Wildcat sports.

Among the news services it plans to use are the GlobalPost, Kaiser Health News, ProPublica and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.

It’s part of a trend.

A February/March 2008 article in the American Journalism Review cited new forms of nonprofit, grant-funded news operations:

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting,
MinnPost.com,
The Washington Independent,
Propublica.org, an investigative news operation that opened shop in Manhattan

Earlier, I blogged about another one that recently started up – californiawatch.org.

We’ll keep an eye on them. If you know of others that I should add to my list, please feel free to drop me a line.

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#1 by Mike Truelsen on February 6, 2010 - 7:47 pm

Thanks for the shout-out, Jason. It’s been a hectic first couple of weeks, but we’re getting into a groove.

Now we just need to secure some funding and spread the word. Posts like this will help a lot. Thanks again.

Mike Truelsen
Managing Editor
TucsonSentinel.com

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#2 by jkandel on February 6, 2010 - 8:05 pm

Great work, Mike. We’ll keep watching for the good work you’re doing in AZ. Good luck.

Jason Kandel