Since its launch online just nine months ago, York’s One&Other has attracted attention locally and further afield for its ambitious mix of culture and news for the city. This month saw it launch a magazine and there’s even a television station in the pipeline. I asked managing director Stuart Goulden about how the hyperlocal initiative was [...]
As we reported earlier in the week, lots of hyperlocal news sites have found their way into Google News. Presumably some changes have taken place in the giant algorithm and now it seems people searching for local news and information in some areas are as likley to be presented with a hyperlocal blog as they [...]
A lot of discussion has been sparked this week by Richard Jones’ article for the BBC Journalism College ‘Why I couldn’t make a living from my successful hyperlocal’ which looks at the reasons he felt the excellent Saddleworth News wouldn’t give him a livelihood. Predictably it is being seized upon by those looking for evidence [...]
One of the initiatives Talk About Local is involved in gets underway today with the launch of a hunt for news entrepreneurs who want to join a programme of training and mentoring. The Made project (Media and Digital Enterprise) is being run out of the University of Central Lancashire (UClan) after winning funding from Google [...]
As part of Nesta’s launch of the Destinaton Local programme this morning, a significant new report that puts down a marker on where the UK’s hyperlocal media scene currently stands has been published. The Here and Now report is written by Damian Radcliffe, someone many of us are familiar with thanks to his must-view regular [...]