There’s been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing on local and what it means for journalism over the last month or so (some links below) but the real relevance of local is probably captured in Kirk LaPointe’s musings about Locative Journalism today. His last sentence clearly points to why local is a big part of the future of news organizations:
It will impossible to miss the impact of geo-locative advertising and marketing, so journalism clearly has to play along.
Yep.
Some links on the local debate, each of which contains more links:
Alfred Hermida: Asking whether local is better in journalism is the wrong question and Local news unimportant for newspaper readers.
Andy Dickinson: Who hosted the June Carnival of Journalism, which was dedicated to the question to local.
Steve Outing: Response to a critic of my hyper-local thinking.
UPDATE: I missed pointing to Steve Yelvington’s post on hyperlocal lessons which, in a few words, neatly captures one of big challenges local-bound newspapers are up against: local doesn’t mean what it used to.
(Note: Looking at my posting history, it appears as though I’ve been on holidays of late. Blame it one a heavy load of gardening duties and visits from the SO’s brother and sister-in-law, which makes them my common-in-laws.)
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Tags: advertising, hyperlocal, newspapers
