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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate.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.

The Batavian is an online local news organization run by Howard Owens in Batavia, N.Y.

The site was launched in May 2008 by the newspaper chain GateHouse Media as an experiment in online-only local journalism.

Owens, who helped start the site as a GateHouse executive, left the company to take the Batavian over in February 2009. The for-profit site is free and supported by advertising.

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TBD, West Seattle Blog, GateHouse Media

Recent Nieman Lab coverage:

Dec. 3, 2013 / Dan Kennedy

The New Haven Independent seeks to expand its hyperlocal mission to low-power radio — The New Haven Independent, which launched eight years ago amid the first wave of online-only community news sites, may soon expand into radio. The nonprofit Independent is one of three groups asking the FCC for a low-pow...

July 8, 2013 / Dan Kennedy

Charting a locally owned, for-profit future for community news — For those of a certain age, perusing the ads posted at The Batavian, the for-profit news site in Batavia, New York, can seem a lot like flipping through the pages of a weekly community newspaper a generation or two ago. ...

June 4, 2013 / Dan Kennedy

Tracing the links between civic engagement and the revival of local journalism — Editor’s note: Our friend Dan Kennedy has a new book out, and it’s right up Nieman Lab’s alley. The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age takes as its subject local...

Jan. 15, 2013 / Johanna Vehkoo and Pekka Pekkala

Across the world, money to support journalism startups comes from a variety of sources — An analysis of 69 journalism startups in 10 countries finds no Holy Grail, but a lot of revenue ideas in action....

Feb. 26, 2010 / Mark Coddington

This Week in Review: The Times’ blogs behind the wall, paid news on the iPad, and a new local news co-op — [Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] A meter for the Times’ blogs: Plenty of stuff happened at the intersection...

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Primary author: Mark Coddington. Main text last updated: May 10, 2011.

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