Category Archives: outside.in

News values in hyperlocal journalism

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In hyperlocal news, one reader’s banality is another’s vital intelligence. Writing on the first anniversary of his geotagging and hyperlocal news project Outside.in, Steven Berlin Johnson provides a great annecdote about how hyperlocal news coupled with geotagging can create enormous value for readers, even where individual pieces of information available may seem trivial to users who [...]

Bank Holiday catchup

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Best Easter-related wacky headline over the Bank Holiday perdiod goes to tech web site The Register, which graced RSS feeds with “Godless North Korean commies ate my monster rabbits“. Other things we learned over the past four days include: Journalists at the Business 2.0 received their first blog bonuses. Since late last year, editor Josh Quittner has [...]