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28 Aug 09

New rule: Cover what you do best. Link to the rest

A 2007 post from Jeff Jarvis in which he gives us the popular catchphrase "Cover what you do best. Link to the rest."

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Cover what you do best. Link to the rest.
In the rearchitecture of news, what needs to happen is that people are driven to the best coverage, not the 87th version of the same coverage.
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- News is not one-size-fits-all. We don’t get all our news from one source anymore. We get bombarded with news all around us.

13 Apr 09

‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers

A look at both computer- and reporter-generated hyperlocal news sites via the New York Times.

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New York Times hyperlocal Everyblock local_news entrepreneurship

The general message is that hyperlocal news sites are in their infancy and that their coverage, at this moment, is spotty in the cities that are actually covered. Few of them employ actual reporters, either.

Right now, the owners of these sites are counting on the proliferation of local blogs (maybe even run by ex-journalists) to help bolster the content on their sites in the future. (We'll have to see about the attitude toward aggregators in the future...) - superjaberwocky on 2009-04-13

13 Mar 09

I Want to Start an Online Community Newspaper. Now What? - RJI News Collaboratory

Amy Senk writes about wanting to start an online local newspaper in her smallish California city as a one-woman operation.

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28 Jan 09

Media Nation: GateHouse memo to employees

Media Nation reprints an internal memo sent from the honchos to the employees of GateHouse Media.

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GateHouse New York Times links linking local_news hyperlocal journalism lawsuit

For anyone who thinks or says that GateHouse is against the well-embraced Internet practice of content sharing and linking, and that we don't understand the great value of these practices, they are dead wrong.
Having this behind us is great, but it's the road ahead where the battle for the hearts, minds, dollars and eyeballs of local readers and advertisers will be won or lost, and make NO mistake, we will win, but we will face formidable competition at every juncture, which is something that we're not afraid of – whether it be print, digital or any other form of the media

27 Jan 09

The three primary roles your local website should play

Steve Yelvington tells us that local newspaper sites should play the town crier, town square and town expert -- and he notes that these roles are "coequal."

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