Press Gazette: Local Heroes 2010: The future of local news starts here
Monday, 1 March 2010, 20:57
"Kingston University and Press Gazette have teamed up to host a unique one-day conference – Local Heroes 2010 – to showcase success stories and innovation in UK local journalism. … Confirmed speakers include: Former Birmingham Post and Mail editor in chief Steve Dyson, Teesside Gazette editor Darren Thwaites, ultra local blogging pioneer William Perrin and David Parkin, founder of successful local business news website TheBusinessDesk."
Lost Remote: Definitions: ‘local’ vs ‘hyperlocal’ vs ‘niche’
Thursday, 25 February 2010, 08:44
"A mom blog is a niche site. A neighborhood blog is hyperlocal. A city blog is local. Disagree? Let us know."
The next web: AOL plans to dominate hyperlocal news – can indie journos compete?
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 23:08
"As major media companies colonize [the hyperlocal] space, do small independent publishers have a chance of competing?"
New Media Age: AND’s Local People rolls out iPhone app of local news
Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 13:45
"Local People, Associated Northcliffe Digital’s network of hyperlocal sites, has launched an iPhone app to provide communities with news while on the move. … A Top Places Nearby feature allows users to search for popular attractions by area."
JoshHalliday.net: The future belongs to the doers
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 08:54
"[H]yperlocal news sites should have been embedded into news journalism programmes from day jot … There’s no teaching practical journalism like beatblogging."
paidContent:UK: Hyperlocal Hopes May Be Blunted By Revenue Realities In 2010
Thursday, 10 December 2009, 09:24
"[If] you’re going to ask Newsquest to hear your hyperlocal partnership proposition, you better have a good proposition. The company’s digital managing director Roger Green spoke with refreshing honesty by saying he’s sick of upstart local businesses—or “zero-revenue publishers” as he calls them—looking for a free ride from the Gannett-owned publisher’s commercial mass."
Online Journalism Blog: Hyperlocal websites? They’re just ‘tittle tattle’ says MP
Thursday, 10 December 2009, 07:56
"The final select committee on ‘The future for local and regional media’ took place Tuesday, with Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders apparently writing off the whole of the web as being incapable of holding power to account. …"
WSJ.com: CNN Invests in Neighborhood News Feed Outside.In
Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 07:42
"CNN.com is investing in Outside.In… CNN.com declined to say how much of a new, $7 million fund-raising round came from its own coffers."
BBC News: New lease of life for newspapers
Saturday, 31 October 2009, 13:23
"The Newspaperclub team, all of whom have backgrounds working online, are creating a website that will allow people to design and print small runs of newspapers. … Recently the Cabinet Office asked them to produce an experimental paper covering just one postcode."
New York Times: Politico’s Creators Plan Local News Web Site for Washington
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 08:52
"Allbritton Communications said its new operation would start with a newsroom of about 50 people — far larger than those of other local news start-ups around the country, though still smaller than the local news staffs of major metropolitan newspapers. … Robert L. Allbritton, who heads the family-owned company, and [Jim] Brady said they had concluded that the venture had to be done on a large scale or not done at all — essentially the same premise that accompanied the founding of Politico."
One Man and His Blog: Should Hyperlocal be Hyperniche?
Sunday, 30 August 2009, 07:56
Adam Tinworth: "We keep talking about hyperlocal, and that's a thought process that's rooted in the geographic nature of most newspaper circulations, particularly in the US. What our experience in RBI is teaching us is that hyperlocal is just a subset of hyperniche – and that there are many niches calling our for good, community-focused journalism."
The EveryBlock Blog: New feature: custom locations
Friday, 28 August 2009, 18:57
"[T]he boundaries of a neighborhood don't necessarily correspond to the boundaries of the area you're interested in … [W]e've decided to address this problem once and for all, and we're incredibly excited about our new approach. Today, we're launching a feature that puts the control of geographic boundaries in your own hands."
paidContent: The Problems With EveryBlock
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 16:56
"in its current state, EveryBlock works better as an add-on—a place I might want to turn to if I’ve already seen the local headlines for my neighborhood. Perhaps that’s why the MSNBC Interactive acquisition is so important, since the company has indicated that it will couple EveryBlock updates with the local sections of MSNBC.com."
The Economist: Local newspapers in peril: The town without news
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 07:53
"An advertising slump has hit local newspapers much harder than national papers or other media (see chart). The growing reach of national brands like Rightmove and Auto Trader means that local papers have lost their grip on property and car advertising. Most painful has been the disappearance of job ads. Public-sector recruitment has shifted mostly to official websites in the past few years, and recession has eroded the rest. In July 1999 an edition of the Echo carried 17 pages of job advertisements. The final issue had one-fifth of one page."
