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OJR front page archive for October 2004

Running Your Own Site: A Primer for the Entrepreneurial Journalist

October 29, 2004
Before quitting that day job to run a 'micro' news site, it's important to consider how to make it pay. The editor in chief of The MicroEnterprise Journal shares some tips and how-tos.

The New Voices: Hyperlocal Citizen Media Sites Want You (to Write)!

October 26, 2004
From Bakersfield, Calif. to small-town New Jersey, community news sites are springing up with a bottom-up "open source" approach, written and photographed by citizens and overseen by journalists.

Recurring Nightmare: How One News Site Weathered the Storms

October 22, 2004
Operating in extended crisis mode, the staff of OrlandoSentinel.com faced down three hurricanes in six weeks, delivering a combination of staff Weblogs, real-time community information and user-contributed content.

Open Season: News Sites Add Outside Links, Free Content

October 19, 2004
News online has never been about just one site, but rather an array of options zig-zagged with links. Now sites such as the BBC and News.com are linking more outside their domains, and WSJ.com and NYTimes.com are opening up more free content.