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Collapse Board, a music website, is this week’s entrant in Crikey’s occasional series New Kid on the Block.

RenewEconomy is an online-only niche publication that has as its tagline “tracking the next industrial revolution”. It’s the latest New Kid on the Block.

Everyone from the Prime Minister down was praising the launch of The Mackay Telegraph, a hard-copy giveaway with a 25,000 print run and available online.

Broadsheet aims to be THE guide to “where to go out on a date, where to buy a pair of jeans, where to eat well and have good coffee” in Sydney and Melbourne. It’s another media New Kid on the Block.

YourView aims to change the way public affairs are conducted by injecting into the media not mere poll results but a measure of public opinion after people have been properly informed.

A publication for students by a former student: Meld Magazine is this week’s New Kid on the Block, profiling new and independent media start-ups.

The Global Mail is about long reads, of the kind one once found in the Saturday papers and in quality magazines. But it has no business model to sustain itself.

Journalist Complaints, launched just weeks ago, is an example of citizens taking the monitoring of the media into their own hands, in the absence of an effective regulator.

The story of bright indy publication The Enthusiast is sobering for those who embrace the possibilities of new media.

Given the doom and gloom surrounding most discussion of print media, some might find it surprising that there is a flurry of hard-copy start-ups in Australia at present.

The Hoopla is the brain child of well-known comedian and journalist Wendy Harmer and marketer Jane Waterhouse. Founded in July this year, the site is already enjoying modest success.

The King’s Tribune: “What would happen if The Onion and The Monthly got together in a bar.” Crikey begins a look at media start-ups.