Ads and links in hyperlocal: the rich begging from the poor?
The battle for sustainability in an online landscape is the major challenge facing journalism as it strives to adapt to…
The battle for sustainability in an online landscape is the major challenge facing journalism as it strives to adapt to…
Last week (April 12) West Leeds Dispatch took its first steps towards becoming a social enterprise. The hyperlocal community news…
As one door closes, so another one opens. It was announced earlier this month that the Llanelli Star was closing…
It may be that journalism can be saved. But it won’t be by journalists writing articles about what needs to…
In late August 2015 we sat down with Jonathan Turton to talk about his decision to bid farewell to one of the…
There has never been a better time to be a digitally savvy journalist. There are a lot of journalists with…
In a somewhat distasteful, yet predictably demagogic performance at the CIA’s headquarters last month, newly-elected President Donald Trump pontificated about…
The hyperlocal sector is a melting pot, a disordered yet harmonious entity of independent elements ‘melting together’ and bound by…
We invited Joe Willis, who quit a regional daily to set up his own hyperlocal website in North Yorkshire, to…
2016 was a remarkable year for those of us working in the media. Newspaper sales continued to lurch while online…
What makes a community newspaper so versatile is that everyone contributes
It’s easy to get caught up chasing and writing a story. As journalists the thrill of a scoop courses through…