Required reading from 2009 for hyperlocal news entrepreneurs
If you’ve walked into 2010 with plans on becoming, remaining or sustaining a hyperlocal news venture, there is lots you should already know and have already read.
Still, while thumbing through some links I thought were particularly important, I managed to find five stories from 2009 I think are most valuable.
- A Brief History of Hyperlocal News by Keith Hopper
- 10 new routines for a Hyperlocal news site by Nieman Journalism Lab
- Can the Grey Lady sell ads to hyperlocal businesses by Econsultancy
- Let’s build an ecosystem around hyperlocal bloggers by Jeff Jarvis for Guardian
- Ad shift throws blogs a business lifeline by New York Times
And, if I could, I might, hesitantly and humbly, also suggest folks read my “Hyperlocal news: a definition,” which argues that there is an important distinction between local and hyperlocal. Might be worth it.
What else might you add to this list?
Christopher Wink is the marketing director of Back on My Feet, a homeless advocacy nonprofit based in Center City Philadelphia. A resident of the Fishtown neighborhood, I am also co-founder of Technically Philly, a news site that covers technology and innovation for the region, and Web editor and business manager for NEast Philly, a hyperlocal news site for Northeast Philadelphia. I also maintain a freelance writing and editing portfolio. On this site, I share clips and write about the future of news, social media and entrepreneurship. The opinions posted here, of course, are no one's but my own, and so should not reflect my employer.
