@William makes a good point that that fracturing, though, should, yes, also involve a deepening, which is possible because the reporter/editor should know that hyperlocal coverage area even better.

@Vaughn I agree that a real value of hyperlocal news can involve actionable movement, as in focusing on that pothole just might actually see it fixed, while broader media often gets swallowed up in bigger issues. Still, I think always a part of hyperlocal should be a complete coverage of an area, but that should be every resource, from the news to the actionable.

Thanks everyone for reading and weighing in!

For hyperlocal, I like to use the pothole example. A pothole in front of your house is of zero interest to me. When it’s in my neighborhood, that pothole becomes, well, fascinating, possibly even more fascinating than the news story or blog or tweet that you’ve geotagged as belonging to my neighborhood.

I think the mistake that most people are making with hyperlocal sites is that they’re putting way too much focus on “news” stories/blogs/tweets and way too little on these sorts of “cellular” aspects that become visible — and interesting — when you apply the microscope of hyperlocal.