Today’s links 04/30/2012

• Storyful. » Storyful and Demotix join forces to create a unique real-time newswire

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  • Demotix will now deliver its content through a dedicated channel on the StoryfulPro platform, which is used by some of the world’s leading media organisations, including YouTube, ABC News and the New York Times. Clients will now have the ability to source from a comprehensive real-time feed of content, discovered and verified by Storyful alongside rights-cleared imagery from the Demotix network.

• edwalker.net » Blog Archive » Notes and thoughts from #TAL12: Hyperlocal matures, funding emerges and BBC gets serious

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  • On the other hand there are the hyperlocal community sites, these may not be WordPress sites but might be Ning’s, Facebook groups and more – but they don’t do ‘news’ as other people define it, they seek to pass on information and allow communities to comment and talk about their area.

• High hopes for hyperlocal media | Lily Canter

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  • Start a hyperlocal website. There is a market for it especially if local newspapers are failing to provide decent coverage for their area. There is a growing online audience and the overheads and start up costs are virtually nil. However you do need to be prepared to work for free in the beginning, you do have to have some business sense and you need to be able to think beyond display/classified adverting models.

     

• Hyperlocal news manifesto – Boing Boing

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  • community reporting requires more than cogs. It requires more than an academic familiarity of those it covers. What meaningful local reporting requires is a personal investment. If the reporter doesn’t stand to benefit from a healthy community, his coverage will serve to dramatize and exacerbate problems rather than solve them.

• PG research reveals 242 local press closures in 7 years – Press Gazette

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  • These news gaps include Port Talbot, a 50,000-strong community in South Wales which has been without a local newspaper since 2009 when the Port Tablot and Neath Guardians were both closed by Trinity Mirror.

    While Port Talbot continues to be covered by regional daily – the South Wales Evening Post – it no longer has the in-depth coverage offered by its own title.

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