Wednesday, June 27, 2012

NYT backs away from The Local

 

Five things The New York Times learned from its three-year hyperlocal experiment


 The Local was billed as an open-ended project with some specific ideas in mind. Blogs would be helmed by a couple of professional New York Times reporters, but story ideas and contributions would come from the community. If all went well, it might create a platform the Times could license to other communities.
But now The New York Times is backing away from The Local, says it doesn’t make sense to pay its staff to be in the hyperlocal business. 

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