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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
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
