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James Hatts, editor of London SE1, summed up the essence of hyper-local news by saying “if you do these things right then there is a lot of goodwill out there” and those concerned about their area “will care that it’s well reported on and that there is a sense of community and information sharing“.
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If the wire editor and feature editor roles are becoming obsolete for print newspapers, as Steve Yelvington persuasively argues, then those editors should be retrained — or retrain themselves — as web curators. Rather than become obsolete, these editors could become essential to their news organization’s future on the web.
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Northcliffe Media is to roll out a series of ultra-local sites with a focus on social media, according to reports.
The local newspaper publisher will launch an initial 30 sites in June, targeted at towns with a population between 10,000 and 40,000 which have no local paper or website. -
This is a project from CAN-UK, who’ve been working from Ladywood for more than a decade. Lozells already has the very fine http://www.lozells.info and the South Lozells Housing Regeneration area is beginning to use the web to tell the story of how it is progressing, see vision-lozells.org