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The Miami Herald is to launch a set of online hyper-local websites before the end of 2009, reports Editor & Publisher. The metro daily will initially link five community websites: South Miami and Pinecrest; Miami Springs, Virginia Gardens and Medley; West Kendall; Key Biscayne and Coral Gables. Rick Hirsch, senior editor/mu (Read More)
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Patch has announced its plan to expand into New York State, with eleven new sites in Long Island and Westchester County scheduled for launch in the next three months, according to a press release. Patch already has twelve community sites in New Jersey and Connecticut and is starting two more this week, in Livingston, NJ and (Read More)
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October 3rd saw the relaunch of Nordsee- Zeitung, a daily newspaper in Bremen, Germany, covering local news, sports, business, jobs, and community events, reported Kress. The publication, which underwent a complete visual, content and organisational overhaul, now collaborates with a news desk organisation and uses a new lay (Read More)
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PPF Media has been getting a lot of international attention lately for its hyperlocal news project in the Czech Republic that is built around Starbucks-style "news cafes" in local communities. CEO Roman Gallo provided an update Friday at the 2015 Newsroom Conference, and the project seems to be working. Thirteen weeks after (Read More)
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Northern Echo, a Newsquest-owned publication, plans to roll out new community websites in the North East and will employ 30 non-journalists to provide content. These citizen journalists will receive training in taking photos, structuring a story, and how to use the newspaper's content management system to upload their work. (Read More)
Submitted by Reechard
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One of the big debates about the nonprofit model in journalism is whether nonprofit news organizations should accept advertising. Some do. Some don’t. Some are thinking about it. Now, the City University of New York’s New Business Models for News Project has rendered its own verdict: Nonprofits can’t afford not to.Jeff Jarv (Read More)
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To expand its offerings on recently introduced channel MSN Local, the Microsoft news and entertainment portal is in talks with local UK newspapers to provide content for its hyperlocal feeds, the Telegraph reports. "Hyperlocal news online has never been more important and we think this is a really interesting growth area," (Read More)
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Think news outlets only report on disasters, crime and political scandal? Not at Coastal View, a recently launched community newspaper for the borough of Redcar and Cleveland in the North-East. The new publication focuses solely on positive accounts, from success stories of local businesses to activities and events. (Read More)
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EveryBlock has released its computer code for public use this week, which looks set to present exciting opportunities for local news providers. The "geocoding" technology could allow more newsrooms to catalogue online articles by location, developing hyperlocal news services, for which there is an apparent public demand.The (Read More)
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A new initiative by Associated Northcliffe Digital aimed at small towns in the southwest will introduce 50 hyperlocal sites where community members can write and upload content. The sites are targeted at towns with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants who don't yet have an online news portal to call their own. Twenty-three of the (Read More)
Submitted by Mcwflint
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Today's an exciting day at outside.in: we're rolling out the beta release of Outside.in for Publishers, a suite of tools for organizing and curating hyperlocal news pages for US cities and towns. There's a great post from our CEO Mark Josephson here explaining the service and the vision behind it.
A few months ago I gave (Read More)
KDPaine's PR Measurement Blog:
This piece in 25/7 Wallstreet on Ten Ways Twitter Will Permanently Change American Business a great piece on the implications of Twitter. Its a long one, so if you want the highlights here they are, in, naturally, what I consider priority order. 1. Twitter will change how marketers measure success. Billboards and ads that (Read More)
Submitted by Mcwflint
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The good news is that surveyed editors say they are staying in the news business because they believe in the mission of journalism.The bad news is nearly a third of the editors participating in an Associated Press Managing Editors survey say staff reductions are affecting the quality of journalism offered."We rarely work o (Read More)
Submitted by Mcwflint
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Everyone's been asking me, when are you going to start posting job descriptions? The answer is: today.Starting with the jobs for our Community team, I'll be posting descriptions for all of the content jobs at AnnArbor.com over the next few days.From the start, I've explained that we're going to be organized around four area (Read More)
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AnnArbor.com is still months away from launching our Web site and our twice-a-week print edition, and much of that work continues behind the scenes. But our ability to talk to you, and for you to talk to us, takes a small step forward with this blog.I've held off on launching a blog until now. I wanted to wait until we ha (Read More)