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paidContent:UK: Local Media May Have Blown Another Online Ads Opportunity

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Robert Andrews: "Through daily coupon deals, place reviews and location sharing, local services is where it’s at. That should finally mean boom-time for local newspapers ... Yet look at the booming crop of next-generation local ad services and you’ll see none was devised by the operators who once had the market all to themselves. "

Observer: Small earthquake in Bideford

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Peter Preston: "Can you have a hyperlocal news site without anything you could call news on it, just local bits and blogs about the weather and links to butchers, bakers and estate agents? If you want Bideford news, go to the North Devon Gazette and find at least 97 chunks of it (including 'North Devon Rotarians in conference with Archbishop Tutu and UN Secretary-General')." Huh?!

Journalism.co.uk: New Northcliffe hyperlocal sites will combine ‘social networking and news’

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"Seamus McCauley, strategic analyst at Associated Northcliffe Digital [said] the company is developing a series of hyperlocal websites that 'combine social networking with news'. The first 30 sites will go live next month. ... McCauley insisted the new hyperlocal sites would not be in competition with its existing network of regional websites under the ‘thisis’ brand. The publisher also publishes a series of postcode sites, automatically fed by content from a local title, for example the Nottingham Evening Post's websites."

Adrian Monck: The real world of British local newspapers

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Bloggers in Kent are refusing to continue writing for the Kent Courier. One writes: "they sent out a general letter to all us community correspondents saying that they are no longer going to pay us but that they wanted us to carry on writing the column anyway in the form of a blog and then they would choose the best bits for the weekly bit in the paper. Well guess what Courier? I’m already blogging and I beat you to it by two and a half years."

CounterValue: The Thanet Gazette – will the last journalist to leave, please turn out the lights?

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"The Isle of Thanet Gazette - a Northcliffe-owned title ... [have] got a absolutely cracking splash this week ... But there are two things that are wrong with it. ... It was broken on a series of amazing local blogs days ago after the local papers had wrung their hands about what to do with it."

Digital highlights from Northcliffe presentation

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Northcliffe Media’s investor briefing to the Cityearlier this week made for some very interesting reading. NMG managing director Michael Pelosi said: “We must deliver local audiences if we are to achieve profitable revenue growth. Digital publishing has a key role to play here.” Meanwhile, the company also announced this week that Associated Northcliffe Digital is being [...]