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The Budget’s local impact: regional reports from HM Treasury

June 22, 2010

Now we’ve had today’s budget, why not see if hyperlocal can try and assess the local impact. HM Treasury has provided us with three press notices, a couple of photographs and the regional budget reports, one for each of the 10 regions of England and then one for each of the devolved regions of Northern [...]

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Hyperlocal Network Mainstreet Connect Raises $3.97 Million First Round | paidContent

June 3, 2010

This is the start of what founder Carll Tucker event hopes will be 3,000 hyperlocal news sites by 2013. Before embarking on creating a hyperlocal news empire, Tucker was editor and publisher of Trader Publications, a community news company based in Cross River, NY. via Hyperlocal Network Mainstreet Connect Raises $3.97 Million First Round | [...]

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Orange Digital Campaigning Awards (NOT): The local general election

May 27, 2010

While plenty of people were shouting about how 2010 would see the first social media election, I wasn’t so sure. A more locally-focused general election seemed on the cards from where I sat (not surprising though as ‘local’ is kinda my thing now). The Orange Digital Campaigning Awards are supposed to pick out those good [...]

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Guardian Local gives hyperlocal ad system Addiply a boost

April 23, 2010

The Guardian’s local pilots have this week installed the self-serve advertising system, Addiply giving the service an important boost as it looks to become part of the answer to monetisation of online news. Two ad slots went live on Guardian Leeds yesterday with two each appearing on the Edinburgh and Cardiff sites today. When the [...]

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OpenlyLocal begins collating hyperlocal council reporting

April 23, 2010

Chris Taggart has just launched a new feature for his OpenlyLocal project which matches the massive wealth of accessible council information with articles from hyperlocal web sites. Using the well-established pingbacks system used by many blog platforms, including the very popular WordPress, Chris’ site will now show any hyperlocal articles written about a certain councillor [...]

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Unconference sees hyperlocal and main stream media begin to work together

April 22, 2010

Last week saw TAL10, the Talk About Local unconference take place in Leeds. The event, at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds, was attended by many hyperlocal site owners but in contrast to TAL09 it also attracted more journalists included those from mainstream media such as Trinity Mirror and Newsquest. This isn’t surprising, as hyperlocal sites [...]

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Ignorance over local bloggers prevents community getting to news that matters

February 25, 2010

VentnorBlog, the well-established Isle of Wight news blog, found itself thrown out of a coroner’s court on Tuesday. Coroner officer Richard Leedham told Simon Perry of the VentnorBlog, who is a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and who has been writing VB for over four years, that the coroner did not wish [...]

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West Midlands Future of News Group

February 2, 2010

The first ever meeting of the West Midlands branch of the Future of News group will be held at Birmingham City University on Monday February 8 at 6.45pm. Inspired by the Future of News group in London, organised by Adam Westbrook, WM FON has been set up to discuss how new approaches can help to [...]

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Conservatives propose ultra-local television stations

January 19, 2010

In a Parliamentary debate on the newspaper industry last week, Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, Ed Vaizey MP said that the Conservatives will propose ‘ultra-local television stations’ as a response to the decline of the newspaper industry. Combined with the relxation of media ownership rules they believe this is the correct course of [...]

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Introducing JournalLocal!

December 22, 2009

Welcome to JournalLocal, for now just a blog but soon to be a hyperlocal platform for communities everywhere. So-called hyperlocal sites are springing up everywhere, from tiny villages in Derbyshire to whole islands. Often they are created by active citizens who want to get more involved with their communities. These people often require some training, [...]

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