Journalism
Building a news oasis in a journalism desert
Plus why we end up with zombie websites, YET MORE Twitter chaos, and the cancelling of Dilbert
substack
Six thoughts about the Substack Local initiative
Newsletter platform Substack is chucking $1m of its VC cash at local news journalism. Is this helpful — or just marketing?
solutions journalism
Solutions journalism: who is using it - and why
Can upbeat news which delivers solutions to our problem supplant "if it bleeds, it leads"? Maybe - it's certainly proved lucrative for some publishers.
Johnston Press
The Final Days of Johnston Press
The clock is counting down to the end of Johnston Press, one of the great regional newspaper companies in the UK. The company is doomed - but can local news be saved?
hyper-local
Welsh Hyperlocals - lessons from success and failure
Two examples of hyperlocal journalism - one that failed and one that is succeeding.
algorithms
Facebook asks publishers: are you local?
Ooops. He Zucked it again. For three weeks running now, Zuckerberg’s big blue monster is messing around with the Facebook and its relationship with news. This is an actual photo of audience engagement people reading the latest missive from Facebook [https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/01/news-feed-fyi-local-news/]: And
david higgerson
When hyperlocal isn't really very local.
David Higgerson, quoted on Hold The Front Page [http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2016/news/publisher-continues-web-rebrand-with-launch-of-new-county-wide-sites/] : > Lincolnshire Live and Cornwall Live follow the same model of hyperlocal news on a county-wide platform as the recently launched Essex Live, Kent Live, Gloucestershire Live and Somerset Live. David, I don’t
greenwich
Why we need the hyperlocals
853 [http://feedly.com/k/1aAGZcs]: > Greenwich Council has finally come clean and admitted its weekly newspaper, Greenwich Time, is signed off by leader Chris Roberts… “to ensure political neutrality and to protect the borough’s reputation”. Council-run newspapers and magazines are not journalism, they’re propaganda. They will
aggregation
Le Web: How is social-mobile-local changing media?
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/mediapanel3.jpg] A panel discussion the changes in media wrought by the latest technology, moderated by Thomas Crampton [http://www.thomascrampton.com]. Not surprisingly, Paul-François Fournier, Executive Vice President, Orange Technocentre defines media as, essentially, businesses that produce content,
coffee shops
Free Starbucks WiFi = Local News Opportunity?
Yesterday, the news broke that Starbucks will start offering free WiFi in the UK [http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/10/07/starbucks-rolls-out-free-wifi-in-the-uk/]. They’re not the first – you can get free WiFi in Caffe Nero already, for example – but the content partnership model they’ve followed in the US suggests
hyper-local
Riots = Hyperlocal Traffic
That graph is the rather stunning [traffic impact of the London Riots on the Brockley Central blog](http://brockleycentral.blogspot.com/2011/08/riot-urls.html):> The London riots sent traffic through the roof, with 35,000 visitors on the Monday, when riots in Lewisham took place and 45,000
Brighton
Telling Shoreham's Stories
An experiment in different models of journalism