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t scarcely matters any longer who actually breaks a story. It's the actions of the fast followers that matter. Successful hyperlocal sites that grab the story after it has been reported by more traditional media and generate responses to it from those close to the event win. Take a string of burglaries in a neighborhood. Reactions from Bob, who lives next to a house that was hit, and John, one of the victims, are more compelling and often more relevant than the actual headlines.
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“We like to call it the local, mobile news desk,” founder and CEO Andy Leff told me in a phone interview. Users can “report, update and read local news as it’s happening from their phones.”
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It won’t be on the Guardian’s website (unless some sort of miracle happens) but it’s something worthwhile that needs to be continued. And hopefully, when the Alternative Media in Leeds project knows what it wants to do, there’ll be a place for the daily roundup posts there as well.
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