BREAKING NEWS: Baltimore Examiners Launch 'Investigative Voice"-- **EXCLUSIVE**

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Baltimore Examiner investigative reporters launch independent site, web address no longer a mystery

The Baltimore Spectator has learned that the rumored and much anticipated return of former Baltimore Examiner reporters has arrived. The site, now live, is a joint collaborative effort headed by Stephen Janis, former senior investigative reporter for the Examiner. Beat writer Luke Broadwater and editor Regina Holmes round out the trio.

Initially contacted to confirm early rumors, Janis stated the three felt their work was a sincere benefit and service to the community and therefore should continue despite the shutting down of their former employer.

Janis and Broadwater have both won numerous awards for their hard hitting, in depth coverage of a side of Baltimore many would rather conceal.

The Baltimore Spectator has obtained, in advance, the heavily guarded web address and now reveals it (BEFORE the official announcement), as an exclusive to our readers. The site has a neat, clean, modern layout with several stories and photos posted.

Official announcement and launch is scheduled to take place this morning on The Ed Norris Show, heard on Baltimore's 105.7 The Fan.


BUT YOU HEARD IT HEAR FIRST!

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LIMITED TIME: Baltimore Examiner Returns

On this, the first Sunday without the Baltimore Examiner. As a service to readers of The Baltimore Spectator, we present to you The Examiner. It's the only place left to view the Examiner online. Hurry take a peek, this is guaranteed not to be up for long. Be sure to click on the "archives" link and you'll be able to go way, way back. Really, gonna miss this newspaper.

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The loss of The Baltimore Examiner has given me reason to believe that we’ve now seen the last “newspaper” that will ever try to come to Baltimore and “beat The Sun.” And of course, what The Sun will become over the next decade remains to be seen.

-- Nestor, you're more generous than we are. You actually give the Sun 10 years? -- The Editors

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The Baltimore Spectator has learned that folks at The Anschutz Corporation, publishers of the now defunct Baltimore Examiner have visited this site. Apparently they were seeking to glean details on the upcoming project of Stephen Janis, senior investigative reporter of the Examiner. Janis told the Spectator he would be working with former Examiner reporter Luke Broadwater and editor Regina Holmes on a new website dedicated to focused, hard hitting investigative reporting on Baltimore City.

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UPDATE: Well placed sources have revealed to us that staffers at The Washington Post have been discussing the story of the Baltimore Examiner reporters returning. The source tells us the staffers viewed The Baltimore Spectator and the site was passed around among editorial management.

Record page views and new readers continue to flood The Baltimore Spectator as people from around the world visit to learn the future of The Baltimore Examiner. In the story first broken here, we revealed before any of the Baltimore mainstream media, that some of the staff of the Baltimore Examiner, namely Stephen Janis, Luke Broadwater and editor Regina Holmes are planning a resurrection.

To date, this site has been linked to, and visited by more people in a single day, than ever before, because of this story. We literally have seen folks from Europe, Asia, even South America view the piece. Truly, the power and reach of the web is fascinating. Even on a story we thought was "ultra local."

Thanks to readers like you for driving us forward. We hope you continue to visit and tell your friends about our unique little contribution to the way news is distributed. Thank you DCRTV.com for being the first to link and to all the rest of you also, too numerous to name.

I should also add, folks from all of the local media outlets have also been visiting The Baltimore Spectator.


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A.F. James MacArthur -- Managing Editor


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What's Up Baltimore? **LIVE RADIO SHOW**

Thank you everyone who tuned into our first experimental broadcast of What's Up Baltimore?

Stay tuned to this website for more information on upcoming shows.

We will soon be on Monday through Friday, ALSO, a toll free call in number coming soon.


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Power Of The Web: Examiner To Resume!

UPDATE: 3:21 -- Baltimore Spectator website flooded with hits from around the world looking for information not on any other website. Investigative reporter Stephen Janis bombarded with numerous media requests as a result of the reporting on this site.

In a conversation with The Spectator, Janis refused to release the address of the website, but stated more information is forth coming, and Baltimore Spectator readers will be among first to know.

Local main stream media scrambling to catch up and confirm story first broken on this page.

UPDATE: 2:30 PM -- **EXCLUSIVE** Stephen Janis spoke to The Baltimore Spectator -- "We plan to focus on the investigative reporting the people of Baltimore expect from us."

BREAKING NEWS: Original story

(The Baltimore Spectator) 8:20 AM -- Just announced on the Ed Norris show, heard on 105.7 The Fan; the former employees of The Baltimore Examiner are working on a brand new news website to be launched next week. Stephen Janis, senior investigative reporter at the now defunct Baltimore Examiner made the announcement around 8:15 this morning.

Launch of the site is planned for next week with official announcement to be made on the Ed Norris Show. Janis stated he was hard at work, still out in the field gathering news and working on future stories to be included in the new site. Stay tuned.

You heard it here first, now stay tuned for all the rest to follow.



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A.F. James MacArthur

Managing Editor


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Baltimore Examiner publishes final issue

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Examiner has published its last issue.

The free tabloid that launched less than three years ago as the city's second daily newspaper printed its last issue on Sunday.

Clarity Media Group, the paper's Denver-based parent company, blamed slower-than-expected ad sales when it announced the closure last month. Clarity said about 90 people would lose their jobs.

The front page of the last issue features a photograph of Baltimore's Inner Harbor with the Examiner building in the background with the headlines: "Goodbye Baltimore," and "Thanks for reading."

Publisher Mike Beatty thanked readers, saying they took pride in writing for them six days a week. He also thanked advertisers for their business and staff for their hard work.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

It's truly a sad day for the city of Baltimore. On a day so many of us wished would never come, here we stand, now, in a one newspaper town.

The Baltimore Spectator will have more on this and the resulting impact including community response in the coming days. Please share your thoughts with us by emailing; BaltimoreSpectator@gmail.com

Baltimore Sun Slanted Article -- Reader Disappointment Expressed

Not sure when this letter was actually sent (it refers to a weeks old story), but I give props to the editors at the Baltimore Sun for running a letter from a reader critical of their coverage and accusing a reporter of unfairly slanting a story. Now with only one paper left standing in town, will there be anyone left to keep things honest?