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This year, we were talking not just about what new features to add to our current sites, but also about the possibility of building an entirely new website for the first time in a couple of years.
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But size isn’t the only important factor, Potts says. Demographics matter too. The ideal community for a hyperlocal news site would include lots of school-aged kids, homeowners, well-established community groups and a local political system. “No one cares about county government,” he says.
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When journalists say "you get what you pay for," there's often a moralistic tone to it that does no one any good. No one's going to save journalism by hectoring people. Instead, journalists, and their audience, should look at it as a simple practical question: as it stands today, if you pay less, eventually you will get less. (Assuming, that is, no one invents a new means of subsidizing journalism without you paying anything.) Are you OK with that?
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DayLeeds is an initiative intended to reboot ‘old media’, provide mechanisms for blending social media with mainstream content, create conversational content and ultimately provide a chorus of new voices for an old city. Though DayLeeds is rooted in efforts to reinvent Leeds’ media ecosphere, the underlying practices, platforms and technologies are in essence “tools for a post-digital newsroom”, applicable to any geography.
Dim Sum Digital 
Wow – the DayLeeds project sounds amazing.
I have similar ideas for a couple of projects I’m hoping to work on in 2010!
As a journalist who’s looking at setting up a multi-media hub in the south of the city, I’d be very interested in working with these guys in the future.
My project, the South Leeds Information Project, comes under the umbrella of health organisation South Leeds Health For All. We aim to set up a hub which provides an internet news service, community bloggers, a printed community newspaper run by an editorial board of local residents, as well as offering printing, design and training services to local groups. We’re hoping to train up community reporters and offer a general media consultancy service…
Unfortunately, we’ve struggled to get funding (we had a couple of years’ funding from the lottery to do a print newspaper, but that ran out earlier this year and there’s not much cash about.)
If the guys involved in DayLeeds want to get in touch for an initial chat, that’d be great!
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