Hyperlocal news

STATISTICS ON HYPERLOCAL NEWS There were high-profile failures, most notably Backfence.com (2007) NBC WashIngton, aka WRC, Channel 4, came in far behind the Post at and LoudounExtra.com (from Washington Post in 2008). →6.94% despite the TV site's strong interest in at least certain categories of local news, such as poli- tics an d the social circuit. The WashIngton Post 71.08% of the market for the enjoyed ending September 18, 2010. "four rolling weeks" The Washington Times commanded The Washington Post >5.85% NBC4 of the local Hitwise- defined scene, although national and international WASHINGTON, D.C. percentages might be higher, reflecting the paper's current priorities, which have dramatically redu-ced local coverage. The Washington Times FOX5 MyFox of Washington, D.C., aka WTTG, Channel 5, drew TBD 5.09%. The Examiner TBD came in at 4.46% not that far behind the local Fox outlet and the Washington Times, if you consider that it's just starting up and will probably grow numbers. Gannett's WUSA, aka Channel 9, 29% The WashIngton Examlner is at 214 measured a less-than- a little unfair, considering the breadth of the local news coverage, given the paper's limited resources. Allbritton U.S. visitors stellar showing if you consider the station's past strength in news coverage. Commulcatlons' VHF station, WJLA, aka Channel 7, is last at a 2.2M miserable .16. 2.5 million 2000 global, U.S. WRC/NBC included 2M national, (2.1M global) 1500 WRC/NBC (unique monthly visitor count of 893.4K 1000 929.3K global visitors) WTTG/Fox (not "Quantified" although Quant- cast does offer an estimate of The New York 294.4K TImes Develop- ers Network is Quantified and 500 without a global visitors number given) WUSA 173.3K WJLA sharing the data 189K 1.2K monthly Quantification TBD in progress 5.7K and 1.9K with overseas traffic included Since 2004, when trouble in the news industry started to show, at least 800 community news Web sites have popped up 4,100 independent hyperlocal sites indexed by Placeblogger - which greatly out number the nation's 1,400 local dailies and the 800 venture- and NEWS In 2007, one in eight J foundation-funded local sites - are essentially small busi- nesses, often with one or two employees bootstrapping to produce a local news product. Americans lived in a In Illinois employs four journalists but is in the process of training 350 neighborhood volunteers city or town with a local blog LAB Wrote last month that of the 1,200 sites in J-Lab's database of community news sites, about half are now inactive (March 2012) SOURCES http://www.solomonscandals.com/?p=7871 http://www.solomonscandals.com/?p=7810 http://keithhopper.com/blog/brief-history-of-hyperlocal-news http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/01/future.online.news.hyperlocal/index.html http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/166190/why-some-hyperlocal-sites-struggle-to-attract-audiences-generate-revenue/