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Feb 24, 2012 12:45 PM
Patch (Rhode Island)

AOL's fast-growing hyperlocal network
By Justin Yang
Patch came to Rhode Island in October 2010, launching in Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth after the Newport Daily News ended free access to its website. A month later, Patch launched in eighteen more communities. Read CJR's full profile of the Patch network here. Patch has launched more than 860 sites in twenty-two states plus the District of Columbia. For more information on the network's activities on a state by state basis, click one of the following links: California, District of...
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Feb 24, 2012 12:43 PM
Patch (South Carolina)

AOL's fast-growing hyperlocal network
By Justin Yang
Patch arrived in South Carolina in June 2011 with an initial launch of four sites serving Charleston-area communities with populations ranging from 15,000 to 100,000 people. There are currently eleven Patch sites in the state. Read CJR's full profile of the Patch network here. Patch has launched more than 860 sites in twenty-two states plus the District of Columbia. For more information on the network's activities on a state by state basis, click one of the following links: California, District...
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Mar 1, 2012 01:29 AM
Patch (Virginia)

AOL's fast-growing hyperlocal network
By Justin Yang
The Old Dominion is home to thirty-one Patch sites in all, but the sites are not evenly spread out through the state, geographically speaking. The overwhelming majority of Virginia's Patches are located in the fast-growing, affluent and tech-savvy Washington, D.C. suburban neighborhoods in and around Fairfax County, in the northeast tip of the state. Read CJR's full profile of the Patch network here. Patch has launched more than 860 sites in twenty-two states plus the District of Columbia. For more...
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Feb 24, 2012 12:56 PM
Patch (Washington State)

AOL's fast-growing hyperlocal network
By Justin Yang
Patch launched in Washington state in October 2010, its first site focusing on University Place in Pierce County, near Tacoma. Patch later rolled out a total of fourteen sites in the tech-savvy state, concentrating on the Tacoma and Seattle areas. Read CJR's full profile of the Patch network here. Patch has launched more than 860 sites in twenty-two states plus the District of Columbia. For more information on the network's activities on a state by state basis, click one of...
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Feb 24, 2012 12:59 PM
Patch (Wisconsin)

AOL's fast-growing hyperlocal network
By Lauren Kirchner
The Patch network in Wisconsin consists of sixteen sites, all of which are concentrated around Milwaukee with the exception of Hudson Patch, which is more than 300 miles away, near Minneapolis-St. Paul. Fortunately for Patch, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel announced in late 2011 that it would be putting its website behind a paywall, opening the door for potential traffic growth for Patch's free-access sites throughout the region. Read CJR's full profile of the Patch network here. Patch has launched more...
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Jun 29, 2011 12:03 PM
PatersonPress.com

Hard news meets hyperlocal in Paterson, N.J.
By Arvin Temkar
PATERSON, NEW JERSEY — PatersonPress.com, a hyperlocal news site for Paterson, N.J., brings an old-school mentality to a new era of journalism. Editor Joe Malinconico said that traditional, shoe leather reporting is what makes Paterson Press shine. That's also what won the site two New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists awards only eight months after it launched. Paterson Press launched in October 2010 as a project of the Citizens Campaign, a nonprofit organization that educates citizens on how to be...
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Mar 24, 2011 03:12 PM
Peach Pundit

Conservative local political commentary from the founders of RedState
By Chris Benz
ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA — With its simple design and lively comments section, Peach Pundit resembles many right-leaning political opinion blogs. What may set it apart is its pedigree: Clayton Wagar and Erick Erickson, both among the founders of conservative mega-site RedState, founded Peach Pundit in 2005 as a side project. The site covers Georgia state and local politics with a conversational flair, but, according to Charlie Harper, the site's editor-in-chief, it's not a money maker like its big brother. "Red State...
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Oct 31, 2011 01:49 PM
Pegasus News

News, entertainment, and local information for the Dallas-Fort Worth area
By Tyler Jones
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — Pegasus News was made to cover an event like the state fair of Texas. Both are large-scale, interactive, and can fry something up for everyone. Over 2.5 million people attend the fair each year, the largest in the country, and from the end of September to the event's conclusion three weeks later, Pegasus News adds a special homepage tab directing curious fair-goers to everything they need to know. Layered stories with diverse categories of information allow Pegasus...
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Mar 25, 2011 03:05 AM
Philadelphia Neighborhoods

Award-winning student journalism from Temple University
By Daniel Denvir
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — Philadelphia Neighborhoods is a news website reporting on the city's poor and working class neighborhoods, produced by undergraduate journalism students at Temple University. The site is part of Temple journalism's Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab, which emphasizes two things deemed important for future journalists: hyper-local reporting and the ability to tell stories via text, photos, and video. Read more about Philadelphia Neighborhoods "The strength of Temple is the urban environment, and it was clear to the faculty that...
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Pitchfork

The prolific online music reviewer/kingmaker
By Sean Gandert
CHICAGO, IL — Founded in 1995 as an Internet alternative to traditional music fanzines, Pitchfork has become a force within the music industry every bit as vital as Rolling Stone or Spin. While somewhat controversial due to its highly opinionated reviews, Pitchfork has a reputation for being able to spot new talent and bring them to a much wider audience. Bands such as The Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene owe much of their current status to reviews in...
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Dec 21, 2011 11:43 AM
Plains Daily

Right-leaning reporting for North Dakota
By Erik Shilling
FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA — Plains Daily debuted in March 2010, the brain child of North Dakota conservative talk-radio host Scott Hennen, who was previously best known around the state for interviews with former vice president Dick Cheney and presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, among others. Bachmann has been a particularly vocal supporter, calling him the "voice of today's Tea Party patriots," though Hennen himself might prefer the title of "Chairman of the Common Sense Club", as he declares on his...
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Aug 16, 2011 11:54 AM
Planet Princeton

One reporter goes from freelance to Facebook to hyperlocal
By Leah Binkovitz
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY — When friends and readers complained to Princeton-based reporter Krystal Knapp that they couldn't find her stories on NJ.com, a combined web presence for papers owned by Advance Publications in New Jersey, she decided to start her own site serving the city she loves. Knapp was, and continues to be, a freelancer for The Times of Trenton, but she wanted to give herself the opportunity to cover some of the local interest stories that couldn't find a...
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Mar 25, 2011 03:02 AM
PlanPhilly

Reporting on urban planning and Philadelphia's changing neighborhoods
By Daniel Denvir
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — PlanPhilly is a news website providing in-depth coverage of the city's built environment. The site was launched in 2006 to cover the planning process for the Delaware River waterfront. PennPraxis, a planning consultancy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, asked journalist Matt Golas, former metro editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, to come in and give them some advice. He left with a job offer and a news website to create. Read more about PlanPhilly "After...
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Oct 31, 2011 11:46 AM
Plunderbund

Ohio state politics from a progressive point of view
By Alysia Santo
HAMILTON, OHIO — Like many political news sites, Plunderbund was born out of frustration. Ohio-based writer Eric Vessels had been disengaged from politics for years, but when President Bush was reelected in 2004, his apathy transformed into anger. "I realized I hadn't been an active part of doing anything to make the country go in the direction I wanted it to," says Vessels. "I couldn't sit back and complain about it without participating in the process." Read more about Plunderbund...
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Feb 2, 2012 11:12 AM
Plymouth Daily News

Hyperlocal news for "America's hometown"
By Caitlin Kasunich
PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS — For almost two decades, editor and publisher Walter Brooks and his family have run online media ventures in several Massachusetts communities. Starting in the early months of 1996, Brooks helped launch the online edition of the vacation guide Best Read Guide/Cape Cod. Just a year later, he started the hyperlocal news site CapeCodToday.com--an early example of the hyperlocal genre, which CJR profiled in 2011. Around 2000, Brooks and his wife, son, and daughter-in-law set up eCape.com as...
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