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Images: Indie hyperlocal newsrooms as individual as the sites

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Jessica Durkin

Below is a sample of community news and hyperlocal newsrooms from around the country. Publishers and editors in the Block by Block network responded to a request for newsroom photos. Here is the first installment. Submit a photo of your … Continue reading →

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Hyperlocal ad network scales to local news environment

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Jessica Durkin

Community news publisher Justin Carder learned first-hand the shortcomings of traditional news advertising systems. Carder started Capitol Hill Seattle blog in 2006, a site that is now read by 5,000 people daily, according to information on the site. CHS was voted … Continue reading →

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News publishers: Shafer has it wrong about ‘hyperloco’

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Jessica Durkin

This week Slate.com media columnist Jack Shafer posted a pair of articles about the emerging hyperlocal news space. The first post, “Hyperloco: Why I find AOL’s Patch sites so off-putting”, took a shot at Shafer’s local Patch.com site in suburban … Continue reading →

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‘Comments are content’ for local news sites: 8 tips to build community, coverage

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Jessica Durkin

What types of stories get comment traction on hyperlocal sites? Block by Block (BxB) surveyed independent, community news site publishers about their top reader engagement tools, and 100 percent of respondents said the comments feature on their CMS platform is … Continue reading →

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