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‘… hyperlocal news sites like ours are bringing the personality of a community to the news by letting residents have a much more active role in dictating what is news.’

‘… I returned to Charleston convinced that we do a disservice to our readers when we think local reporting only happens when we stay close to home.’

‘Judging from our three studies, the future of America’s local newspapers is dim.’

TribLocal.com is ‘designed to give readers the depth and breadth of news and information that their local newspapers don’t deliver.’

‘Being local these days is not just being a one-way flow of information.’

‘When high-tech’s central institutions blew up, people asked many of the same questions I hear asked by journalists today.’

These sites ‘provide a depth of coverage of microscopic issues and events that thinly stretched traditional newsrooms simply can’t get to.’

After working as Central Command’s spokesman for the war in Iraq, Josh Rushing became a reporter for Al Jazeera and writes about his transformative journey.

‘The currency common to these assignments was the thread of local connections stretching from Indiana to overseas and back in news stories we broadcast.’

New media—and new ‘newsroom’ arrangements—combine to make local coverage of environmental issues compelling and personal.