The preferred bidders for the Independently Funded News Consortia will receive government money to provide a new type of local news in the UK. The government process is almost unique in the world – intelligent action and innovation rather than handwringing or thoughtless subsidy for more of the same. The government said of the IFNC [...]
Tag Archive for General ultralocal or hyperlocal stuff
Local news, but not as we know it – reviewing media histrionics about local news
‘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 [...]
'News will become a product of the community as much as it is a service to it' – great Jeff Jarvis post
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 [...]
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 [...]