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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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
