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Hyperlocal Boston

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 17/10/2009

Now that The New York Times Company has decided not to sell the Boston Globe, DailyDeal.com wonders whether the company should convert Boston to a hyperlocal-based business. Well, our Knight Foundation-funded New Business Models for News can be a roadmap. Indeed, the 5-million-person hypothetical ma ...

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Local blog and business models event at CUNY

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 15/10/2009

I’m putting out a call for local bloggers within traveling distance from New York – and for journalists who’ve left their jobs or are thinking about leaving to start local news blogs – to attend a series of workshops at CUNY on Nov. 11. The first half of the day, we’ll ...

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geoTwitter and news and more

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 21/08/2009

Twitter announced a geolocation API today and it set my mind to spinning with implications that I tweeted like a Gatling gun:* For news, it would be possible to verify that witnesses reporting what they see are where they say they are. Twitpics can be geotagged. * Local news organizations should bui ...

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Supporting the new news ecosystem

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 31/07/2009

Friend Mark Potts is announcing a new company today, called GrowthSpur, which will help support what I believe will be the future ecosystem of local news. You can read about it at Jon Fine’s column in BusinessWeek and on Mark’s blog. I’ve been helping since its early phases. Mark, ...

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Charity or collaboration?

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 19/07/2009

The New York Times has accepted free stories from ProPublica. It has endorsed a journalist getting help from the public via Spot.US to underwrite a story that might appear at NYTimes.com. And Poynter’s Bill Mitchell says the paper is even wondering about foundation support for its work (but fo ...

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