{"id":1946,"date":"2009-10-24T06:57:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T13:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2010-09-19T04:52:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T10:52:34","slug":"so-what-is-the-story-with-examiner-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/so-what-is-the-story-with-examiner-com\/","title":{"rendered":"So what is the story with Examiner.com?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2980\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2980\" title=\"Examiner.com screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2010-09-19_045053.jpg\" alt=\"Why does ThorntonWeather.com share stories and links with Examiner.com?\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2010-09-19_045053.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2010-09-19_045053-150x110.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why does ThorntonWeather.com share stories and links with Examiner.com?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We are oftentimes asked why we have links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\" target=\"_blank\">Examiner.com<\/a> on ThorntonWeather.com and why we plug stories from them.\u00a0 The reasons stem from our interest on the topics at hand but also because by your visiting Examiner.com, you support ThorntonWeather.com.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some background on Examiner.com might be useful.\u00a0 Examiner.com was launched in 2008 by Clarity Media Group, a company owned by Phillip Anschutz.\u00a0 The site is essentially a living example of \u2018citizen journalism\u2019 featuring local news stories on hundreds of topics written by people titled \u2018Examiners\u2019 who are knowledgeable in their given topic area.\u00a0 There are now hundreds of local editions of Examiner.com including of course Denver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truveo.com\/Anschutz-Examiner-Operation-Is-Based-In-Denver\/id\/2180098033\" target=\"_blank\">Watch a news story that CBS4 did on Examiner.com a while back to get some more information<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We were recruited to write for Examiner.com when it first launched, initially as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Weather Examiner<\/a> and more recently we are also writing as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25803-Natural-Disasters-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Disasters Examiner<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Change Examiner<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do we write for Examiner.com?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost it is because <strong>we are passionate about weather and climate and enjoy sharing news stories about those topics<\/strong>.\u00a0 Weather is one of the things that affect the lives of every single person on earth and that is fascinating to us.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By writing for Examiner.com, we have a pretty big stage on which to have our topic features \u2013 the site is one of the fastest growing on the Internet and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantcast.com\/examiner.com\" target=\"_blank\">now ranks 82<sup>nd<\/sup> in overall traffic on the Internet<\/a> with more than 12 million people a month visiting it.\u00a0 That ranks higher than popular sites like drudgereport.com, cbs.com and newsweek.com!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1165\" title=\"Examiner.com - Get inside Denver weather\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/examiner-get-inside.png\" alt=\"Examiner.com - Get inside Denver weather\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/examiner-get-inside.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/examiner-get-inside-150x41.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Secondly, quite frankly we do get paid for writing for Examiner.com and that money directly supports and helps to pay for ThorntonWeather.com.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/wx9.php\">weather station hardware, software, lightning detectors, and more<\/a> that we use here on ThorntonWeather.com is very expensive.\u00a0 Factor in computer costs, website services and more and it isn\u2019t cheap.\u00a0 We don\u2019t charge for ThorntonWeather.com and never will but Examiner.com helps to offset the very real costs we do incur in operating the site.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>By reading an Examiner.com story we post in our news section or checking out the links on the left to our Examiner.com topic areas, you are supporting ThorntonWeather.com directly.<\/strong>\u00a0 So, if you like ThorntonWeather.com, we ask you to check out our stories on Examiner.com \u2013 not only is Examiner.com a great, local news source, it also is a great way to help us!\u00a0 You can also support us by checking out the few advertisers you see on the site.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you ever have any questions about our site, Examiner.com or any weather-related topic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/contact.php\">please contact us<\/a>.\u00a0 Thank you as always for supporting ThorntonWeather.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the net:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Weather Examiner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Change Examiner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25803-Natural-Disasters-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Disasters Examiner<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are oftentimes asked why we have links to Examiner.com on ThorntonWeather.com and why we plug stories from them.\u00a0 The reasons stem from our interest on the topics at hand but also because by your visiting Examiner.com, you support ThorntonWeather.com.\u00a0\u00a0 Some background on Examiner.com might be useful.\u00a0 Examiner.com was launched in 2008 by Clarity Media &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/so-what-is-the-story-with-examiner-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So what is the story with Examiner.com?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[294,299,293,224,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}