A local news startup covering South Jersey with an emphasis on Atlantic City.

Route 40 is a web-based local journalism startup covering South Jersey, with a particular emphasis on fresh reporting on Atlantic City and its surrounding towns.

It’s currently run as a part-time effort* by Elinor Comlay and Bill Sprouse, two reporters with about ten years’ experience writing and editing the news.

Elinor is a native of Portsmouth, England. Prior to moving to South Jersey, she was a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Mexico City for five years. Her reporting has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, International Herald Tribune, Yahoo! News and the U.K. Daily Mail.