{"id":2381,"date":"2011-01-18T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T21:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:35:17","slug":"the-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2381","title":{"rendered":"The Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>W-town&#8217;s got some new independent media: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-examiner.co.nz\/\">The Examiner<\/a> launched yesterday. The mission is to &#8220;look deeper and think harder&#8221; which, in an era of frankly embarrassing daily newspapers, sounds worthwhile to me. It&#8217;s &#8220;peer-edited&#8221; and they&#8217;re encouraging participation from anyone nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a great Wgtn-focused companion to Scoop&#8217;s lively <a href=\"http:\/\/werewolf.co.nz\/\">Werewolf<\/a> monthly. Also, another good example of traditional media channels being challenged from the grassroots. Help it find its audience and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-examiner.co.nz\/\">take a look<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, this being W-town, two of the three launch articles interview friends of mine, and I know half of the listed contributors as well. Wellington isn&#8217;t small exactly, but it sure is densely interconnected.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W-town&#8217;s got some new independent media: The Examiner launched yesterday. The mission is to &#8220;look deeper and think harder&#8221; which, in an era of frankly embarrassing daily newspapers, sounds worthwhile to me. It&#8217;s &#8220;peer-edited&#8221; and they&#8217;re encouraging participation from anyone nearby. Sounds like a great Wgtn-focused companion to Scoop&#8217;s lively Werewolf monthly. Also, another good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Examiner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[81,98,182],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediawatch","category-wellington","tag-newspapers","tag-the-examiner","tag-dubtown"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-Cp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}