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. media angle rather than a digital native. He hasn’t quite got the hang of the role of volunteers and human news geographies in all this yet though.
Founder of Talk About Local, Trustee of the Indigo Trust, Tinder Foundation, 360Giving, co-founder Connect8, former member of UK Government transparency panels, former Policy Advisor to UK Prime Minister, former Cabinet Office senior civil servant.Open data do-er, Kings Cross London blogger. Loves countryside. Two small children.
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