Cincinnati Beacon
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The Cincinnati Beacon was founded in 2005 by Jason A. Haap (the so-called Dean of Cincinnati) and Andrew Warner to serve as an alternative news source in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.
Structure
The Cincinnati Beacon is structured to be a hybrid between a blog and an online newspaper. The idea is to empower unpaid, volunteer bloggers so they can challenge the status quo of Cincinnati corporate news. The front page, therefore, avoids the traditional blog stack, offering a qualitative ranking layout for stories. Blog traditionalists, however, can use an online feature reformatting the site into a standard blog form.Editorial board
As of April 2006, The Cincinnati Beacon had an editorial board featuring the founders (Jason Haap and Andrew Warner), as well as Justin Jeffre -- a multi-platinum recording artist turned political activist.Advocacy journalism
The Cincinnati Beacon believes in advocacy journalism, and in the year 2006, the Editorial Board decided it would be a worthwhile goal to work towards removing Republican County Commissioner Phil Heimlich from office through partisan attacks on their blog. Phil Heimlich is son of world-famous Dr. Henry Heimlich, who has been implicated by his estranged son Peter Heimlich in several scandals. The Cincinnati Beacon blog claims to have exclusively covered these scandals in Cincinnati, but their coverage is largly a rehash of years-earlier reports by Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Robert Anglen. Anglen, Robert. "Board rebukes AIDS evaluator".The Cincinnati Enquirer. April 18, 2003. Anglen, Robert. "Heimlich falsely claims he did procedure first". The Cincinnati Enquirer. March 16, 2003. Anglen, Robert. "Scientists linked to Heimlich investigated". The Cincinnati Enquirer. February 16, [[2003[[. After the stories were killed by the Enquirer mid-series, The Beacon has been one of the only places to keep the scandal up-to-date, as Dr. Heimlich continues to push his medical theories into non-medical press venues. These scandals include (but are not limited to) malariotherapy, and involvement with the cult of Bill Gothard.References
External links
- [Visit The Cincinnati Beacon]
- [Peter M. Heimlich's website]
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