Engineering the happy medium
On Thursday, I received a comment from Bruce Ritchie, who reports for FloridaEnvironments.com. He wrote: “I find it difficult to stop being a journalist to be an entrepreneur. Everyone can say it’s...
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No job left behind
Last Friday, I had a long conversation via Twitter (it’s possible) with Dan Hugo, a hyperlocalist in the Bay Area who recently ended his Radio Sunnyvale news podcast because of poor funding. Despite...
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What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Here’s a nice little victory: Hyperlocal news sites and blogs are stimulating more citizen discussion on local policy issues than mainstream news outlets, according to a publicly funded study conducted...
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On being and nothingness in journalism
Yesterday, I had two terrific conversations on what it means to be a reporter. The first happened on this blog with Rockville (Md.) Central‘s Cynthia Cotte Griffiths, who pointed out that community...
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Choosing between a mural and graffiti
Some of the nation’s biggest online news outlets still haven’t unraveled the mystery to managing readers’ comments. According to The New York Times, both The Washington Post and The Huffington Post are...
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Writing about deeply personal events can leave a writer feeling vulnerable when reader comments roll in. That may very well have been the case with Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who earlier this year wrote...
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The fashion report
Just because one works from home doesn’t mean one can’t be fashion forward. I sport only the coolest tee shirts while at my computer. And when I do wear pants, they’re the skinny kind. So hot! So it...
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Hello, potential investor. Will you be my friend?
I enjoy speaking with fellow hyperlocalists, especially when one has an interesting question to pose. Recently, one hyperlocalist — I’ll call him Buddy for privacy’s sake — said he’d been approached by...
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Share and share alike
As I’ve said previously, I enjoy speaking with fellow hyperlocalists and learning of their own adventures in entrepreneurial journalism. Part of that enjoyment stems from the fact that I work from home...
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