To Hell or Hyperlocal?
Despite the grimm predictions we talked of earlier in the semester of smaller publications falling by the wayside due to a decline in readership, a new trend could lead to their survival.
Could the era of online journalism become the era of hyperlocal news? For those of you uninitiated with the term hyperlocal news is news that is highly focused on the smallest of communities. Even more centred than the Northside People’s or Dundalk Democrat’s of this world. One website even claims to be as focused within a neighbourhood. This site is called everyblock.com.
To be honest the website isn’t very good. I took one area of Boston I’m familar with to see were there any stories from it, they’re weren’t. The only thing there was a photo feed of pictures from some obscure shopping centre opening. Perhaps though, as with most many new websites it is only finding it’s feet and will improve.
