WHAT IS HYPERLOCAL NEWS?
Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and BRAD STONE
Published: April 12, 2009
If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage? Perhaps a package of information about your neighborhood, or even your block, assembled by a computer.
A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal news sites that let people zoom in on what is happening closest to them, often without involving traditional journalists.
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EXPANSION OF INTERNET NEWS
PewResearchCenter
Understanding the Participatory News Consumer
WASHINGTON – The overwhelming majority of Americans (92%) use multiple platforms to get their daily news.
And the internet is now the third most-popular news platform. It falls behind local and national television news and ahead of national print newspapers, local print newspapers and radio.
Still, the overall reality is that the internet fits into a broad pattern of news consumption by Americans. Six in ten (59%) get news from a combination of online and offline sources on a typical day.
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