Peter Krasilovsky's

Local Onliner

Jan 19
2012

GoLocal 24: Positioning Hyperlocal at the Top of The News Cycle

The decline of newspaper readership opens a door for other media to head the news cycle, with everything else trickling down to the TV and radio stations and Web sites that feed off the original content. That’s the premise for GoLocal24, a local news and lifestyle content company that started with a website and broadcast …continue reading »

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May 11
2011

Review: ‘The Story So Far — What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism’

Whenever one writes about the future of newspapers and other news organizations, a voice in the back of your head says: “they’ve tried that already and it didn’t work.” Fifteen years into the digital revolution, that’s the dilemma confronting the news industry as it once again revisits possible solutions. Thankfully, no one is giving up. …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Newspapers, Research

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Dec 22
2010

Hyperlocal in 2011: A Break in the Clouds?

I take great delight in the Carlsbad Patch updates on my smartphone every morning. And the Fwix local App on my iPad. But why do I feel they are my “guilty pleasures?” Because there is a rap out there that hyperlocal doesn’t scale and these are toys. Is it still the case? Patch now has …continue reading »

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Aug 27
2010

MerchantCircle Launches Local Content Studio

MerchantCircle is joining the ranks of companies creating local and vertical content, including Demand Media, Associated Content, Examiner.com, AOL’s Seed and Patch, Perfect Market, Helium, Brafton Media and others. MC’s new Local Content Studio is being helmed by Andy Halliday, who many of us remember as former head of eCommerce at Excite@Home, who has since …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Social Media

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Aug 10
2010

Allbritton’s TBD.com (and TBD TV) Launch in DC

The latest attempt to make hyperlocal a sustainable reality came today with Allbritton Communications’ launch of TBD.com, a hyper metro site for the Washington DC area. Allbritton, which has sunk “under $5 million” into the project to date, hopes it will grab hold of the DC audience in the same way that its Politico has …continue reading »

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Jun 16
2010

Omidyar’s ‘Civil Beat’ Tests Multi Pay Tiers

If people would only pay for their local content, nobody would be worried about the future of local news. But so far, most have proved less-than-willing. eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, however, is testing out new models at his Honolulu “Civil Beat” site, per NYU’s Jay Rosen, who chatted with TBD.com’s blog. Full access to the …continue reading »

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Jun 2
2010

Main Street Connect Raises $4 Million

Main Street Connect, a new hyperlocal network founded by former community newspaper executive Carll Tucker, former SmartReply exec John Falcone and others in the New York suburbs, notified the SEC on May 26 that it has raised $3.97 million for “working capital” from ten angel investors. The same form notes that the company will attempt …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Money

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