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After Irene: How a Hyperlocal Is Helping
In the Catskills, the Watershed Post is coordinating relief efforts
By Alysia Santo Aug 30, 2011 at 03:07 PM
In the Catskills region of upstate New York, where flooding from Hurricane Irene wiped out entire towns, a hyperlocal site... More
Have You Seen Fido?
Community news sites reunite pets with their owners
By Alysia Santo Nov 8, 2011 at 03:52 PM
When a pet runs away, it can be hard for a distraught owner to know what to do first. Do... More
Lessons from the Seattle PostGlobe
For start-ups, a love of journalism is not enough
By Alysia Santo Aug 12, 2011 at 04:21 PM
When, in 2009, Hearst announced that it had decided to close the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the newspaper’s staffers were beset... More
Orlando Startup Covers the Trayvon Martin Story
When the national news is local
By Alysia Santo Apr 3, 2012 at 09:42 AM
West Orlando News Online in Orange County, Florida, has, like many outlets, devoted considerable resources to covering the story of... More
Q & A: Jim Brady on the Death of TBD
“It was never about us making an insane amount of money by doing hyperlocal.”
By Lauren Kirchner Feb 25, 2011 at 01:50 PM
This week, the staff of TBD, Allbritton’s local website in Washington, D.C., learned that the site would undergo massive layoffs,... More
Q&A: Luke Stangel, Co-Creator of TapIn Bay Area
“Mobile could make us focus again on what we do really well as reporters.”
By Alysia Santo Jul 12, 2011 at 12:07 PM
This week, Bay Area News Group—publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, the Oakland Tribune, and several other newspapers—will release... More
Survey Question: Do You Trust This Poll?
Local news sites informally collect community opinions
By Alysia Santo Feb 16, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Every week, Phoenix-area hyperlocal news site InMaricopa asks its readers to participate in a brand-new poll; each usually gets at... More
What I Saw at the Hyperlocal Revolution
Without journalism jobs, we don’t have journalism
By David Watts Barton Nov 17, 2011 at 02:57 PM
When I quit The Sacramento Bee after nearly twenty-five years as a reporter and columnist in 2007, I looked like... More
What’s A Local Site To Do?
Small and hyper-local sites gear up for the GOP primary
By Joel Meares Jun 27, 2011 at 05:01 PM
In June 2010, Craig Robinson got a midterm scoop that no other media outlet, national or local, was able to... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
