Talk about local’s work often features in the media. To date we have appeared in The Times, The Guardian (Society, Technology, Media, Data, Activate and Guardian Local), the BBC on web and TV news, Radio France international, Audi Magazine, Inside Housing, Stoke Sentinel, Islington Gazette, Birmingham Post. We feature on leading media industry blogs.

The Guardian
A short interview with Talk About Local founder William Perrin and a video of him talking about his site Kings Cross Environment .

A front page feature in Society Guardian on the hyperlocal web in Kings Cross and elsewhere.

Talk About Local & William featured in the 2010 Hugh Cudlipp lecture given by Alan Rusbridger - the Cudlipp is the annual state of journalism lecture.  Alan set out a spectrum future of the media with Rupert Murdoch at one end and:

..At the other end of the spectrum we have millions of William Perrins, beavering away for free

The Guardian Activate blog wrote up William’s talk at the opening Activate summit.

The Times

The Times contacted us about an article on the importance of local website to the housing market.  The Times paywall makes it hard to link to but here’s a picture of the article.

BBC
Talk About Local has been mentioned by the BBC on a number of occasions.
A good website piece on the struggle to find an independent voice for the community featuring Mike and Nicky’s sites - Fight For The Right To Report and a video story featuring Annette from a great Talk About Local site, W14London.ning.com  Local Websites Tackling Councils And The Multinationals.  We’ve long been supporters of the marvellous OpenTech and were featured in this coverage of the 2009 event Where You At OpenTech09?

in 2010 William & Mike spoke at the BBC College of Journalism event – the Value of Journalism (video) also covered by journalism.co.uk - which was great for us, being asked to lecture the BBC on how to do local web coverage.

Mike returned to the BBC College of Journalism – the Value of Journalism event in 2011 to speak and sit on an expert panel.

Industry Blogs

We worked with Trinity Mirror to help them find a way for their traditional papers to engage with local websites in Birmingham, TM press released the work also written up on The Wall.  This project has gone on to be a great success.

We were delighted to help the bible of the housing sector, Inside Housing with a feature on the local web and a voice for residents.

Camden Council interviewed William about our work with them to bring on local websites.

The industry site journalism.co.uk covers our role in helping people set up sites and promoting the sector in an article on business led sites.

Sarah Hartley, then Editor of Guardian Local wrote about our work together fostering local websites

Channel4 and 4 IP write about their major contract with us as did Digital Birmingham – we delivered this on time and budget.

The excellent Kevin Harris a real hero of local activism and the web wrote kindly about our project as did Tom Watson MP, more recently famous for his work on hacking scandal.

The brilliant Pete Ashton wrote up our public service work with Pesky People (funded by Media Trust) to make over their website to make it more welcoming to people with disabilities.

Paid Content wrote about the role of hyperlocal sites in the future media landscape in an article about our Stoke-on-Trent unconference in 2009

If you have a media query of any sort please contact us via hello@talkaboutlocal.org