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Hyperlocal Voices: Jack Davies, Tongwynlais
We’re back to Wales for the latest interview in our Hyperlocal Voices series; as Jack Davies tells Damian Radcliffe about the community website for Tongwynlais in Cardiff. Launched in Summer 2012, the...
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Hyperlocal Voices: Mark Baynes, Love Wapping
In our latest interview with hyperlocal practitioners, Damian Radcliffe speaks to Mark Baynes from Love Wapping. A journalist, professional photographer and user experience designer; Mark explains how...
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Hyperlocal Voices: Jenny Shepherd, Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
For the latest in our series of interviews with hyperlocal publishers we head North to Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, where online journalist Jenny Shepherd talks to Damian Radcliffe about the Upper...
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Hyperlocal Voices Revisited: Tim Dickens, Brixton Blog and Brixton Bugle
In our Hyperlocal Voices series we speak to hyperlocal publishers about their journey as they seek to build a successful hyperlocal offer. From time to time we also check in again on some of the more...
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#Hyperlocal Voices: Niall Norbury, Alt Reading
To kick off our Hyperlocal Voices series for 2015 Damian Radcliffe hears from Niall Norbury, Editor of Alt Reading. A relative newcomer to the scene, the only magazine celebrates its first birthday...
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Stop being a snob: 10 ways hyperlocal media is contributing to UK journalism
Image by Nicky Getgood In a guest post, Damian Radcliffe says that hyperlocal sites are being held back by regional newspaper snobbery, while he gives 10 reasons why hyperlocal should be recognised as...
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Guest post: hyperlocal Groundhog Day – why policy makers need to support UK...
Groundhog image by Alessandro M In a guest post for OJB, Damian Radcliffe argues that the need for policy makers to support hyperlocal publishers is stronger than ever – and explains just how that...
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“Data matters — but people are still the best sources of stories” —...
Peter Geoghegan In a guest post Jane Haynes speaks to investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan of the award-winning news site The Ferret about data, contacts and “nosing up the trousers of power”. When...
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Hyperlocals “Unlikely to get much cash out of mainstream publishers” warns...
Should independent hyperlocal news operations expect ‘cashback’ from mainstream publishers who use their copy? In a guest post for OJB, Jane Haynes speaks to Marc Reeves, editor of Birmingham Live,...
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Four simple SEO settings missed by hyperlocal websites
When it comes to news websites’ referral traffic, Google beats Facebook hands-down, with the search giant accounting for 40% compared to Facebook’s 26%. And yet hyperlocals, says publisher John Guinn,...
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