The Toronto Star launched a new project called Your City, My City, on March 6, focusing on identifying key issues and the people who are trying to address them. The idea is to engage the audience in making Toronto a better city, as well as taking these ideas before those running in the upcoming municipal…
A media all-star with journalism roots in Ontario will be the keynote speaker at the 2010 Ink and Beyond conference, to be held May 13-14 in Toronto. John Paton was the co-founder and innovative CEO of impreMedia, the number one Hispanic news and information company in the U.S. The company has just announced the launch…
This article reviews how Facebook can be used by a hyperlocal news website, as one of several social media tools. As Joni Ayn Alexander writes, other social media tools may be popular, Facebook is where a growing majority seem to be right now.
One financial model being experimented with by hyperlocal news sites is not-for-profit. Instead of advertising generating revenues, subscribers or donors provide the funds necessary to operate. Here are five tips for creating a non-profit community online.
Like a few other large urban newspapers, the Washington Post decided to take a stab at a hyperlocal news site, but without success. It ended last month. Here is one perspective on its demise.
Many magazines exempt their own websites from the editorial standards applied to their traditional print product, reports a study of editorial practices at 665 magazines by the Columbia Journalism Review. The study found 11 per cent do not copy edit web-only content at all while 48 per cent copy edit it less rigorously than print…
David Black, who recently bought the Honolulu Advertiser, has joined those bidding for the Canwest dailies, The Globe and Mail reports. If he succeeds, it would make him the largest newspaper-chain owner in Canada…
In the blog Hyperlocalist, Jennifer Deseo shares some powerful insights by Steve Safran about the definition of hyperlocal. For some, it is niche sites and neighbourhoods. Yet, for others, it can be communities: both geographic or areas of interest. “‘Hyperlocal’ covers neighborhoods, while ‘local’ covers towns and cities. … A mom blog is a niche…
Despite the notion the Internet is a world-wide platform delivering news to a global audience, it is still a local perspective that matters most. This is why the hyperlocal news movement is so crucial and viable in the face of the current maelstrom. “Newspaper Web sites continue to be the most used and valued sites…
Hyperlocal expert Griff Wigley has successfully operated a hyperlocal website and built online communities for many years in the United Kingdom and the U.S. Here is an interview where he talks about some of his wisdom he has gather since he began making a living online in 1986. “Over the past three years of running…