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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

Examiner.com is a Denver-based network of aggregated local websites with posts written by thousands of freelancers.

Examiner.com, which was founded in 2006 and reinvented in 2008, produces search engine-friendly articles, often locally based, that are typically made up of aggregated parts from other websites, often building on widely searched-for topics. Its unedited articles are written by 40,000 freelance contributors.

Examiner.com is a part of the Clarity Digital Group, which is owned by billionaire entrepreneur Phillip Anschutz, who also owns the Weekly Standard, Washington Examiner and San Francisco Examiner.

Examiner.com increased significantly was among the web’s fastest-growing news sites in 2009, largely based on its success in appearing near the top of Google searches. It now operates in more than 100 cities in the United States and Canada.

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