The Daily Peg (PegasusNews.com)

Oren describes the first year of Pegasus News operation (OJR-Jan. 7, 2007)

Below is Mike Orren''s bio from the Pegasus News website (http://blog.pegasusnews.com/2005/04/pleased_to_meet.html):

"Mike Orren . . . has been trying, unsuccessfully, to extricate himself from the media business ever since his first attempt at hard-hitting journalism led to the emergency evacuation of his high school. He was a key leader of both the relaunch and re-relaunch teams at D Magazine in the mid-nineties. Disliking the monotony of steady paychecks, he struck off on his own, briefly attempting to launch a Texas Monthly-esque magazine in his native North Carolina (and inadvertently winning some awards along the way). Finding that he missed Dallas, he moved back and took the reigns of Texas Lawyer from 2001 until several days ago. Mike is the author of most of the material on this blog, except for anything with which you disagree. Gary wrote that stuff."

On Feb. 2, 2006, Orren commented in a post on the BuzzMachine blog:

"I thought I was populist as hell, but troubled at this utopian idea that the people are going to rise up and cover their own news. What that really means is that the information is only created by and available for the most active and engaged (dare I say affluent) citizens. From where I sit the vast majority of consumers are still couch sitters, and most citizen journalism experiments (like mine) have found that the CJ’s are like gold, but rare. People are much more likely to post a comment or a photo than to cover a council meeting. And even though I’ve got a team of volunteer journos who do such things (although we’re doing concerts and band interviews), it would never happen unless someone organized it. And, in the end, that organizer will be a capitalist."