Comments on: Curley on HyperLocal, The Washington Post and the New Vegas Venture http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/ LOCAL MEDIA WATCH. The Nexus of All Things Local Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: How the Washington Post and New York Times could outgun hyperlocal sites like TBD and Baristanet | The Solomon Scandals http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/comment-page-1/#comment-447390 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:05:19 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/#comment-447390 […] learn from the Times’ hyper­local shut­down in New Jer­sey? The Post has already chalked up a hyper­local fail­ure in Loudoun County, VA, and now faces com­pe­ti­tion from TBD.com, a hyper­local startup over­seen by Jim Brady, the […]

]]> By: The trash factor: A big reason why newspapers are in trouble? And how can they cope with it? | The Solomon Scandals http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/comment-page-1/#comment-416631 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:51:07 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/#comment-416631 […] 4. For siz­zle, yes, go for YouTube style videos, well-integrated with sto­ries, and think about hand­ing out Flip cam­eras and oth­er­wise exper­i­ment­ing with mul­ti­me­dia cit­i­zens jour­nal­ism, as the New York Times appar­ently will be doing. I don’t see cit­i­zens jour­nal­ism as a panacea. But it has its place to aug­ment cov­er­age from pros at the local level, where breadth of cov­er­age is more impor­tant than com­pletely flaw­less copy, which even the pros can­not achieve. Pay the cit­i­zen jour­nal­ists at least a token amount. Just as impor­tantly, give them ample train­ing to do the job right—a goal of the New York Times’ exper­i­ment with hyper­local news cov­er­age. The Post, by the way, has also been into hyper­local; but in the past some have said it isn’t “hyper” enough in that regard. […]

]]> By: Peter Krasilovsky http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/comment-page-1/#comment-205984 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:09:27 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/#comment-205984 The Wall Street Journal has a major story on the LoudonCountyextra.com issue, summing it up as a “flop.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121253859877343291.html

The article refers to an innovative social media effort that would include local-oriented multimedia and posts from Facebook, YouTube and MySpace but that Curley apparently couldn’t get legal clearance for. Curley had asked me to keep that out of my coverage…..

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