Media News - Tuesday, September 15, 2009
US: Nonprofit website plans watchdog journalism for Orange County
A group that includes former state lawmakers, high-profile attorneys and veteran former newspaper reporters plans to launch a nonprofit online news organization to provide watchdog and investigative journalism in Orange County. The Voice of OC, which will get its start with USD 140,000 from the Orange County Employees Assn., hopes to fill a void left by shrinking staffs covering the county at the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times, said Joe Dunn, a former Democratic state senator from Santa Ana who will chair the outlet's board of directors. Dunn said funds to support an initial USD 600,000-a-year budget are being sought from foundations and private sources and that former Register investigative reporter Norberto Santana Jr. has been hired as the website's editor. Work on hiring a staff of six to eight reporters has begun. The Voice of OC, which hopes to begin posting reports by year's end, is the latest online venture focusing on local reporting and investigative journalism -- two areas hard hit in recent years as newspapers have slashed staffing because of losses in ad revenue. (LA Times)
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