Archive for category: Hyperlocal

Patch Gets Boost From Hurricane Irene

Patch Gets Boost From Hurricane Irene

The biggest story across the Eastern seaboard this weekend- and to a degree elsewhere- was the deadly and much-hyped Hurricane Irene. As the storm swept through the region, the clamor for hyperlocal information began- particularly given the localized nature of […]

Does the Demise of Facebook Deals Signal the Impending Death of Groupon and Its Clones?

Does the Demise of Facebook Deals Signal the Impending Death of Groupon and Its Clones?

Late last week, Facebook backed out of the “daily deals” market, just four short months after striking while the iron was still relatively hot and entering the local group buying fray. In the realm of hyperlocal trends, the localized offers […]

New York City Sets Up Hyperlocal Weather Reporting Website For Residents

New York City Sets Up Hyperlocal Weather Reporting Website For Residents

Officials in NYC over the weekend setup a hyperlocal website that allows users to submit damage reports from Hurricane Irene, while various not-for-profits also teamed up to offer the same type of hyperlocal effort for other parts of the East […]

Hyperlocal News Website Helps Police Catch Rapist

Hyperlocal News Website Helps Police Catch Rapist

Hyperlocal news website MyWelshPool.co.uk has helped police catch a suspected rapists thanks to their community outreach to readers. The UK based website recently posted details about the suspect and asked that their 2,100 Facebook fans report any possible suspects to […]

KQED Public Radio Teams Up With Huffington Post San Francisco And HyperLocal News Provider J-Lab

KQED Public Radio Teams Up With Huffington Post San Francisco And HyperLocal News Provider J-Lab

San Francisco’s KQED public radio has announced a new partnership with Huffington Post San Francisco that will give the radio network the ability to feature the sites content on their radio shows and station website. The station has also announced […]

Digital News Veteran Jim Brady Named Editor-In-Chief By Journal Register Company

Digital News Veteran Jim Brady Named Editor-In-Chief By Journal Register Company

Digital news veteran Jim Brady has been named as editor-in-chief of the Journal Register Company, making the company the newest print organization to shift their focus to online publishing. Under his tutelage Brady will control publications in New York, Vermont, […]

Patch Costing AOL More Than $160M Each Year

Patch Costing AOL More Than $160M Each Year

Perhaps the most ambitious venture into hyperlocal news and media is AOL’s well-seeded Patch, a network of local bloggers that are essentially working for the company to replace the dying hometown newspaper. In the past, communities were served by village […]

Patch Latino To Launch This Fall, Already Hiring Local Reporters [Confirmed]

Patch Latino To Launch This Fall, Already Hiring Local Reporters [Confirmed]

Miguel Ferrer, General Manager of AOL Latino confirmed on Monday that Patch Latino, the Latino brance of AOL’s hyperlocal news network will launch this fall and is already in the process of hiring journalists in select market. Speaking to Portada, […]

BitFlx Brings Hyperlocal Video Reporting To iPhone Users, Android Coming Soon

BitFlx Brings Hyperlocal Video Reporting To iPhone Users, Android Coming Soon

Hyperlocal sites such as Patch.com and Outside.In allow users to write news stories about their local communities, however we currently live in a video centric society and for that reason BitFlx was thought up and initiated. BitFlx is an iPhone […]

Study: Local News Sites Fail on Multiple Levels, Here’s Why

Study: Local News Sites Fail on Multiple Levels, Here’s Why

If you’ve ever had to rely on local news sources for information on a story relevant to your location, you probably are well familiar with the failings of many regional news outlets on the web. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly […]

White-Label Advertorial Marketing Tool Launched By LocalVox

White-Label Advertorial Marketing Tool Launched By LocalVox

Hyperlocal publisher NearSay has announced a new white-label version of their local marketing platform LocalVox. The advertorial publishing tool is a widget used alongside larger hyperlocals and niche verticals with existing sales and marketing teams. The program allows publishers to […]

Journalism 101: Students Given Hyperlocal News Site ‘Saddleworth News’

Journalism 101: Students Given Hyperlocal News Site ‘Saddleworth News’

In February 2010 local journalist Richard Jones setup the Saddleworth News, a hyperlocal news website and on Friday he announced that the paper which generates 22,000 unique monthly visitors would be handed over to the UK-based University Campus Oldham (UCO) […]

Local.com Secures $12M in Credit

Local.com Secures $12M in Credit

Media company Local.com, which recently acquired Groupon-clone Screaming Daily Deals’ Screaming Media Group, has secured $12 million in revolving credit through Square 1 Bank. In a press release, the company said the credit infusion would in part be used to […]

Patch Sets Milestone, Publishes One Millionth News Article

Patch Sets Milestone, Publishes One Millionth News Article

AOL owned Patch.com on Wednesday announced that they have set a major milestone, posting their one millionth news article. Patch is currently powered by more than 850 websites with 1,000 editors that post an original piece of content every 12 […]