New interactive news site set to launch in July

Dragonfire, a nonprofit news site, is set to launch on July 5 at 10 a.m. EST. The site promises to be "a fully-interactive online publication bringing together innovative audio, video and print content in previously unimagined, mutually-supporting formats," according to a promotional e-mail. The site boasts a crew of over 100 journalists from 30 countries and will make its real-world home on the campus of Drexel University in Philadephia, PA. Although it is not a student publication, it will make use of Drexel's well-known business and tech resources in order to "seriously reinvent how we approach digital journalism." The site "intends to create a community of socially concerned, civically engaged users" and will remain nonprofit under the Drexel University umbrella in order to allow reader access to both current and archived content.