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• Ex-Rocky Journalists Publish News on ‘I Want My Rocky’ Site
  Posted by Steve Myers at 12:59 PM on Mar. 5, 2009
  Kevin Flynn, the former transportation reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, is unemployed. So how did he publish a news story Monday on a Good Samaritan who was ticketed for jaywalking? And why was he on deadline Tuesday night?

  The home for Flynn’s three stories since the Rocky closed on Friday is I Want My Rocky, a Web site created by Rocky employees in December to advocate saving the paper.

• Investors Value Ex-Rocky Journalists’ Startup Site; Will Denver?
  posted by Steve Myers
  Preblud has joined with two other investors and a group of journalists — the ones who started publishing news on IWantMyRocky after the paper folded a few weeks ago — to launch a site that would require customers like him to pay for the news they value.
• Smartnews.com according to its site:
  

  SMARTNEWSROOM IS A national network of freelance journalists — reporters, designers, photographers and page designers — whose work will be available for download by member newspapers. Member newspapers may also make their content available to other member newspapers.

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  • I Want My Rocky: Former Rocky Mountain News journalists to launch new journalism project (blogs.journalism.co.uk)

Here is another re-incarnation of a news organization that is being done by journalists who used to work at a Hearst paper that went belly-up. Looks like they are using a hybrid model:

The Post-Intelligencer’s last print edition was published March 17. The newspaper’s owner, The Hearst Corp., said the paper hadn’t been profitable since 2000 and showed no signs of turning around.

The P-I continues as an online-only news outlet, but it employs just 20 of the 150 or so journalists who had worked for the paper.

Seattlepostglobe.org has little money — about $3,000, with another $3,000 pledged. “We’re working as volunteers now,” Murakami said.

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