Comments on: Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes

By: Technolo-J : Step 2: 'Hyperlocal content'

Technolo-J : Step 2: 'Hyperlocal content' — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:34:25 +0000

[...] Ryan Sholin offers some innovative tips for how information can be delivered within the structure of current newsrooms on a variety of different platforms. [...]

By: Invisible Inkling » 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:42:57 +0000

[...] somewhere else. Get over it. CNN and ESPN are not new, and nytimes.com wasn’t far behind. Write local. There are plenty of cooks and painters and poets in your neighborhood. Go out and meet [...]

By: Brian Kerr | Local is the new local

Brian Kerr | Local is the new local — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:30:35 +0000

[...] Here’s an answer: [...]

By: Magnetbox - links for 2007-04-03

Magnetbox - links for 2007-04-03 — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:19:31 +0000

[...] Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes Some ideas on what information people might want from a local newspaper (and how they want to digest it.) I would add housing transactions to that list. (tags: web news paper journalism idea) [...]

By: tam

tam — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:50:49 +0000

If what you desire is lived experience, how can we kill “sound off”?

By: Dadblog » What people want from local media

Dadblog » What people want from local media — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:53:54 +0000

[...] clipped from http://www.ryansholin.com [...]

By: mediarevolutionary

mediarevolutionary — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:21:55 +0000

[...] to Comments Ryan said in his blog Invisible Inkling: Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes. What I want [...]

By: David Harris

David Harris — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:18:42 +0000

This is a great point on two fronts.

1. The key to success with niche markets is to serve the niche. 2. People dig people.

We can put the people back in the news- not just the tragedy and pain – but the humanity. Local reporting is a vehicle to unite a community – not just inform and make paranoid. Local blogs and news sites can use new media to expand the familiar, dissolve modern fences between neighbors, and inform for social action. There is plenty of ‘the sky is falling’ on the national sites.

By: Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Sunday squibs

Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Sunday squibs — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:01:27 +0000

[...] Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes. Ryan Sholin provides a veritable checklist for anyone interested in covering a community. There’s a lot more to his post than that, of course. And follow the link to Kevin Anderson’s post on defining news. [...]