Americans are increasingly using internet tools to keep informed about what is happening in their communities, according to a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
News and resources about how technology is transforming the media
Americans are increasingly using internet tools to keep informed about what is happening in their communities, according to a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
philly.com has launched a redesigned site, with a more modern design and more emphasis on video and interactivity. You can read readers reactions here.
MediaShift has a great guide to the various hyper-local news efforts online — from the independent startups to placeblogs to mainstream media efforts.
Topix is in talks with online news publishers about expanding the use of its hyper-local editing platform to create quick-fire news pages, Journalism.co.uk reports.
The following post was submitted by CyberJournalist.net reader Bob Ingrassia: How can a local news organization make a big pile of money online? With MinnPost, Joel Kramer offers an interesting answer: don’t even try.
A Finnish news publisher, Sanoma Digital, has launched a user-generated news website and solicits material that gets published in a a series of weekly free newspapers.
A bold experiment: Seattle takes first major metro paper online
Hearst is shutting the Seattle Post-Intelligencer down as a printed newspaper, with its last edition Tuesday, and becoming the first major media company to convert a metropolitan daily newspaper into an online only edition. Larry Kramer points out the upside of the Seattle paper’s end on The Daily Beast: “If Hearst is right, they will [...]
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