Wonderful incisive post from Jeff Jarvis which pulls together his thinking on the future of local news, including the hyperlocal and ultralocal. Excerpts include: ‘The next generation of local (news) won’t be about news organizations but about their communities. News is just one of the community’s needs. It also needs elegant organization. News companies and [...]
Archive for November 1, 2008
Facebook and hyperlocal voice
Amidst all the hyperlocal froth people often forget that Facebook has a strong local neighbourhood component – not really by design, despite its origins in campus networks but more because people seem to love forming local area affinity groups. People define their own communities on the ground that reflect human rather than administrative geography. Anecdotal [...]
Traditional press, new business models and processes
Two good posts emerged recently from commentators on the traditional press and new media on new business processes and models. Rather than those inherited from the industrial publishing process. Jo Geary in Birmingham writes about the thorny subject of whether you need to be a journalist to write publicly about stuff that is happening in [...]
Bill Dutton at Oxford Internet Institute on journalism and the fifth estate
Bill has written a couple of interesting posts here and here ‘In many respects, I find some worry to be based on an overly romantic image of the history of journalism. As many at the conference pointed out: ‘When has there not be concern over the quality of journalistic coverage?’ Looking a the history of [...]
Roy Greenslade on the BBC's regional websites
The BBC has some curious plans to invest £tens of millions in what appear to be regional news websites with a strong video content. Roy Greenslade is hoovering up comments on this here over at the Guardian. Roy is starting to get the ultra or hyperlocal debate but is coming at it from a trad. [...]