AdAge.com: Could these local start-ups replace newspapers?
March 9th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Journalism
“We’re seeing the newspaper business collapse in slow motion, but what will replace it? That’s the question behind a wave of start-ups trying to find a new model for local journalism,” says an article on AdAge.com.
It takes a look at the new NYTimes’ ‘The Local’ sites, and the start-up ‘Patch,’ but makes the comment that ‘even the most successful, self-sustaining local websites and blogs find it hard to build advertising-based businesses.’
Tags: Hyperlocal, local journalism
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