Comments on: Curley on HyperLocal, The Washington Post and the New Vegas Venture http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/ News & Views on Local Search and Media Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:08:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: How the Washington Post and New York Times could outgun hyperlocal sites like TBD and Baristanet | The Solomon Scandals http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/comment-page-1/#comment-447390 How the Washington Post and New York Times could outgun hyperlocal sites like TBD and Baristanet | The Solomon Scandals Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:05:19 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/#comment-447390 [...] learn from the Times’ hyper­local shut­down in New Jer­sey? The Post has already chalked up a hyper­local fail­ure in Loudoun County, VA, and now faces com­pe­ti­tion from TBD.com, a hyper­local startup over­seen by Jim Brady, the [...] [...] learn from the Times’ hyper­local shut­down in New Jer­sey? The Post has already chalked up a hyper­local fail­ure in Loudoun County, VA, and now faces com­pe­ti­tion from TBD.com, a hyper­local startup over­seen by Jim Brady, the [...]

]]> By: The trash factor: A big reason why newspapers are in trouble? And how can they cope with it? | The Solomon Scandals http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/comment-page-1/#comment-416631 The trash factor: A big reason why newspapers are in trouble? And how can they cope with it? | The Solomon Scandals Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:51:07 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/#comment-416631 [...] 4. For siz­zle, yes, go for YouTube style videos, well-integrated with sto­ries, and think about hand­ing out Flip cam­eras and oth­er­wise exper­i­ment­ing with mul­ti­me­dia cit­i­zens jour­nal­ism, as the New York Times appar­ently will be doing. I don’t see cit­i­zens jour­nal­ism as a panacea. But it has its place to aug­ment cov­er­age from pros at the local level, where breadth of cov­er­age is more impor­tant than com­pletely flaw­less copy, which even the pros can­not achieve. Pay the cit­i­zen jour­nal­ists at least a token amount. Just as impor­tantly, give them ample train­ing to do the job right—a goal of the New York Times’ exper­i­ment with hyper­local news cov­er­age. The Post, by the way, has also been into hyper­local; but in the past some have said it isn’t “hyper” enough in that regard. [...] [...] 4. For siz­zle, yes, go for YouTube style videos, well-integrated with sto­ries, and think about hand­ing out Flip cam­eras and oth­er­wise exper­i­ment­ing with mul­ti­me­dia cit­i­zens jour­nal­ism, as the New York Times appar­ently will be doing. I don’t see cit­i­zens jour­nal­ism as a panacea. But it has its place to aug­ment cov­er­age from pros at the local level, where breadth of cov­er­age is more impor­tant than com­pletely flaw­less copy, which even the pros can­not achieve. Pay the cit­i­zen jour­nal­ists at least a token amount. Just as impor­tantly, give them ample train­ing to do the job right—a goal of the New York Times’ exper­i­ment with hyper­local news cov­er­age. The Post, by the way, has also been into hyper­local; but in the past some have said it isn’t “hyper” enough in that regard. [...]

]]> By: Peter Krasilovsky http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/comment-page-1/#comment-205984 Peter Krasilovsky Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:09:27 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2008/05/30/curley-on-hyperlocal-the-washington-post-and-the-new-vegas-venture/#comment-205984 The Wall Street Journal has a major story on the LoudonCountyextra.com issue, summing it up as a “flop.” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121253859877343291.html The article refers to an innovative social media effort that would include local-oriented multimedia and posts from Facebook, YouTube and MySpace but that Curley apparently couldn’t get legal clearance for. Curley had asked me to keep that out of my coverage….. The Wall Street Journal has a major story on the LoudonCountyextra.com issue, summing it up as a “flop.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121253859877343291.html

The article refers to an innovative social media effort that would include local-oriented multimedia and posts from Facebook, YouTube and MySpace but that Curley apparently couldn’t get legal clearance for. Curley had asked me to keep that out of my coverage…..

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