http://NewStandardNews.net/ [1]

Exactly the kind of independent media we want to protect and promote – a daily online newspaper of hard news stories from a pro-people point of view – and also where the idea for openzuka had its genesis in comments to a blog entry by editor Brian Dominick [2].

The NewStandard, after three-and-a-half years, has shut down due to lack of people knowing about them. Not due to lack of financial support, but a conclusion that the potential readership was not finding them, and not believing that that would change.