"[T]he trouble is, for many people, local news is boring and not relevant to them. And hyper-local (aka, local-local) is even more so. This is especially so for people who don’t have strong ties to the community in which they live."

"The BBC will propose sharing regional news resources, including non-exclusive footage, to help ITV with the costs of its regional bulletins, and it will tell commercial radio companies that it is willing to spend heavily to market digital radio."

Scott Karp: "Newspaper brands like the NEW YORK Times, WASHINGTON Post, BOSTON Globe, etc. face a unique challenge in the online media age — how to value non-local readers."

"When it comes to local content - particularly community / social action, or news (outside major news organisations) there is, according to the [Ofcom PSB] report, precious little out there."

"TwitterLocal lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area. Just enter a city, state, postal code, choose the range of miles you want to include"

"A local search engine just launched on Facebook. It is called Loladex and you can’t do searches on its Website, only on Facebook. That is because it taps into your friends’ recommendations to rank results."

"[I]t’s become clear the Examiner empire’s real focus is digital local news. Examiner.com has launched sites in 59 cities and hired former AOL executive Michael Sherrod as CEO of its internet operations."

Mark Potts: "The print local advertising business, while declining, still is much larger than that of any upstart competitor–for now. But newspapers are losing ground in the transition to online advertising among the local businesses that traditionally h

"Outside.in, the Brooklyn-based ‘place blogging’ site, has raised $1.5 million, which it will use to build out the site and develop a geo-targeted ad platform."

"Topix – a 25 person company that is 80 percent owned by Gannett, Tribune and McClatchy – … is now getting 60 percent of its content from user generated posts."

"Local.com has just launched a UK version of its site, providing searchable local listings for a range of products and services."

Newsquest’s Lancashire Telegraph has jumped on the hyperlocal bandwagon with ‘Your East Lancs’, which covers almost 20 local communities, primarily villages.

Johnston Press chief exec Tim Bowdler on bringing 24-hour rolling news to local and regional papers: "Suddenly, we are in the business of breaking news again … That is something that we have not done for a while, and our journalists are loving it."

"The UK’s local newspaper industry lost about £225m in revenue last year as regional publishers invested heavily online but failed to counter declining circulation and advertising revenue in print"