By Mindy McAdams
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There are several interesting comments on my EveryBlock post from yesterday. Feel free to join in.
Some people would like to see the data formatted differently.
Some think it’s more useful for reporters than for citizens, while others say it’s a great tool for citizen journalists, who are more concerned about “hyperlocal” news anyway.
Wired’s Compiler blog covered it:
The site touts itself as “a geographic filter” for your city or your neighborhood. Each of the three city-specific sites serve as an info-hub of sorts, showing the hot stories from local newspapers, radio and television stations as well as local blogs, free weekly papers and independent media sources.
Al Tompkins wrote [...]
What is a community? Paul Conley has delighted me many times with his writings about business (or “trade”) journalism and online media. This post is one of his all-time best.
Print is something that I read. A trade show is someplace I go. But a community is a place where I belong.
He’s writing about the multimillion-dollar [...]
Amid a flurry of opinions about “hyperlocal” in recent days, Pat Thornton stepped up to compare some shoddy hyperlocal efforts (two sites from Gannett) with The Washington Post’s new LoudounExtra.com. He made some great points that I agree with wholeheartedly.
The Post put real journalism on LoudounExtra, while both of the Gannett sites are filled with [...]
A bunch of people analyzed the death of Backfence last week — a massively overhyped (and overfunded) site from the very beginning, in my opinion, and nothing I’m going to shed any tears over.
Examining the idea of hyperlocal sites and approaches is worthwhile, though — and Pat Thornton did a nice job of it [...]
Here’s a nice local, local, local package that would grab the attention of parents in your circulation area (if you made your own version, that is):
Who Gets Suspended?
This package about public school suspensions, from the Northwest Florida Daily News (a 38,000-circ. daily located between Pensacola and Panama City on the beautiful Florida panhandle) might [...]
El País of Madrid — which has one of the best newspaper Web sites in the world — has launched Yo, Periodista (I, Journalist), its own citizen journalism experiment:
Help us build ELPAIS.com. If you have witnessed any news, send it to us, and we will publish it. You can send text, photos, videos or documents [...]
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