Hyperlocal News Startups: What's Working? What's Not?

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October 14, 2010 Enroll Now
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Course Overview

Title:
Hyperlocal News Startups: What's Working? What's Not?
Type:
Webinar
Cost:
$27.95
Originally Broadcast On:
October 14, 2010
Time Estimate:
One hour

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Hyperlocal isn’t new anymore. It’s been around long enough to have some signal failures.

Many thought that hyperlocal outlets would serve very small communities – neighborhoods or rural towns. It hasn't worked out that way. Why?

This Webinar will give you a landscape view of the world of local-online startups: their scale, their prospects for success and their challenges.

What Will I Learn:
  • How funding for local news startups affects their strategy and possible endgame
  • Hyperlocal’s “magic number”
  • What failed and why
  • How big platforms and grassroots sites will compete with traditional newsrooms
Who Should Take this Course:

Editors and managers of news organizations, online producers and supervisors, and others interested in media trends.

Course Instructor:

Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams is the CEO & founder of Placeblogger, the largest searchable index of local weblogs. Willliams is also a fellow at the MIT Media Lab’s Center for Future Civic Media, where she focuses on the future of news and civic engagement.

Training Partner:

ONAvation Webinar Series

The ONAvation series, a partnership between the Online News Association and Poynter's News University, has been created to focus on applying cutting-edge technology to journalism. Founded in 1999, ONA now has more than 1,600 professional members whose principal livelihood involves gathering or producing news for digital presentation.

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