Comments on: The "hyperlocal" lessons of America's weekly newspapers http://www.ojr.org/the-hyperlocal-lessons-of-americas-weekly-newspapers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-hyperlocal-lessons-of-americas-weekly-newspapers Focusing on the future of digital journalism Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:43:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: 75.128.117.221 http://www.ojr.org/the-hyperlocal-lessons-of-americas-weekly-newspapers/#comment-2749 75.128.117.221 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:34:42 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=2006#comment-2749 Local community newspapers will never die! I remember a jrn prof saying over & over that if local newspapers would stop trying to cover beyond the local community, they’d be fine. Now the new coined term, hyperlocal is all rage. Local is, was & will be best!

]]> By: Peter Kleid http://www.ojr.org/the-hyperlocal-lessons-of-americas-weekly-newspapers/#comment-2748 Peter Kleid Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:39:49 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=2006#comment-2748 I find the question of “legitimacy” of hyperlocal news an interesting one. I am the lead developer of a website that is a platform for creating online newspapers. Our service is free, and as a result it has attracted a very wide range of writing talent — from future Pulitzer prize winners to the barely literate. For me, legitimacy is about quality and not much else. Whether a newspaper is online or not, whether it has a dozen writers or just one, whether it has advertising or not, has little to do with legitimacy. If a newspaper produces well-researched and well-written stories, it’s legit. If it doesn’t, it’s not.

Peter Kleid
http://www.zoomvillage.com

]]> By: Hal Goodtree http://www.ojr.org/the-hyperlocal-lessons-of-americas-weekly-newspapers/#comment-2747 Hal Goodtree Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:32:53 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=2006#comment-2747 Good article, Melanie! Do you think hyperlocals have become “legit?” I know few hyperlocal publishers who feel that way within the greater news community.

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