Breaking news network-wide on:
• Arlen Specter’s about-face on Dawn Johnsen’s nomination for U.S. Office of Legal Counsel;
• Minnesota conservatives’ assault on Jim Llanas who, if elected, would be the first Latino and first openly gay candidate of the Maplewood city council, and
• Kalamazoo, Michigan’s ballot initiative fight over the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance. Anti- ordinance [...]
October 2009: Third Quarter Impact Update
As we put our third quarter report to bed, some fantastic new news to report:
The Center for Independent Media’s national site, The Washington Independent (TWI), just took the highest U.S. political news site slot on Technorati’s “Top 100” list—widely considered the “definitive list” of the Internet’s most influential news sites [...]
Good news from New Mexico: Traffic doubled in the past 12 months, and great political reporting is a big reason why.
Our feisty team has made the The New Mexico Independent a top destination with its tough, behind-the-scenes investigations of Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration, suspect real estate and energy deals, questionable lobbying schemes, and elections like [...]
CIM News: Record traffic, ethical questions in NM, HIV discrimination in Michigan
Some fantastic news: September saw The Washington Independent breach the one million reader mark for the first time– 1.1 million unique visitors to be exact.
In May, TWI logged only 302,000 unique visitors– a 400% increase in four months!
What’s driving this phenomenal growth? Outstanding reporting [...]