‘This is an emergency. Act now, or local news will die’ said Polly Toynbee’s headline writer in one of the alarmist pieces about the fate of local news in the past month. As readers will know I see a rosy future for hyperlocal or ultralocal news in volunteer-run community websites. And am hopefully close to [...]
Archive for April 14, 2009
So I quit my job to set up Talk About Local…
…and am now back and posting again after an inter-job vacation. Some posts will follow over the next few days as i catch up with the mainstream media catching up on the problems in commercial local media. I shall also be rejigging this blog a fair bit to be a pre launch Talk About Local. [...]