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What is hyperlocal news: another definition from an unusal source

Christopher Wink, the marketing director for homeless advocacy non-profit group, provides a very interesting definition of hyperlocal news. “So here’s what I mean by that. The hyperlocal movement is encapsulating some pretty broad, disparate agendas, from (1) citizen journalists covering their neighborhoods or towns of just a few thousand people or even fewer through to…

Christopher Wink, the marketing director for homeless advocacy non-profit group, provides a very interesting definition of hyperlocal news.

“So here’s what I mean by that. The hyperlocal movement is encapsulating some pretty broad, disparate agendas, from (1) citizen journalists covering their neighborhoods or towns of just a few thousand people or even fewer through to (2) media entrepreneurs who are trying to create news-gathering organizations covering as many as a few hundred thousand people in a specific geographic place — or, you know, data assembled by a computer.”


Christopher Wink, the marketing director for homeless advocacy non-profit group, provides a very interesting definition of hyperlocal news.

“So here’s what I mean by that. The hyperlocal movement is encapsulating some pretty broad, disparate agendas, from (1) citizen journalists covering their neighborhoods or towns of just a few thousand people or even fewer through to (2) media entrepreneurs who are trying to create news-gathering organizations covering as many as a few hundred thousand people in a specific geographic place — or, you know, data assembled by a computer.”

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