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Cutting Staff Results in Less Local Coverage

At a time when we’re trying to invent a new medium on the Web and with niche publications, getting rid of content creators—a.k.a. reporters, RELATED STORY“Stories About Me”– Bill Ostendorfphotographers…

The ‘Local-Local’ Strategy: Sense and Nonsense

‘There is broad logic behind it, but also a host of devilish details that could drag the effort down and once-vital newspapers along with it.’

Matching Ambition With Assignment

A newspaper editor reassesses how to tell stories and who will tell them as pressures to go local intensify.

Forgetting Why Reporters Choose the Work They Do

Will journalists ‘cover local news for life, with no chance of parole?’

Showing China—With a Local Thread

An Essay in Words and Photographs

Investigative Reporting Stays Local

‘The local stories are the toughest. They matter more to readers ….’

Newspapers’ Niche: ‘Dig Deeply Into Local Matters’

...strong, local reporting—and devoting the resources necessary to do it—is so important to daily newspapers.

Winter 2007: Introduction

“Unique local content” is by now a familiar phrase as print competes with digital media for readers’ attention. With constantly updated international and national news reporting and commentary just a…

Local Characters: How to Tell the Stories You Have to Tell

Lane DeGregory offers tips and describes some of the stories she’s written to reporters who work at community newspapers.

Tips About Starting a Hyperlocal Web Site

For those seeking to venture into the hyperlocal sphere—whether affiliated with a news organization or not—we’ve developed tips through observation and study. —J.S.1. Get ready for a high-touch experience: Citizen…