“When we do a story looking at 18 different commuting routes, we’ve created 18 different stories, in a way — we’ve created a story with 18 distinct audiences.”
“Everybody who’s tried hyperlocal has done it with traditional stories. This isn’t that. This is a completely different approach to connecting people with the community and engaging with them.”
“We wanted to focus on neighborhoods and we wanted to have a membership model. We didn’t get to do it our way at DNA, at least on the business side. So we said, ‘Let’s just do it our way now.'”
Hoodline is focused on the local stories that can be found by mining large data sets, whether from city governments or from private companies like Yelp and Zumper.
The Bristol Cable now has a solid stable of members who can be involved in every stage — from pitching story ideas to assisting in investigations to delivering the quarterly print paper.
Wang, Shan. "These national journalists are building a local site to bring a different kind of news to East Texas." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 27 Apr. 2017. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.
APA
Wang, S. (2017, Apr. 27). These national journalists are building a local site to bring a different kind of news to East Texas. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/04/these-national-journalists-are-building-a-local-site-to-bring-a-different-kind-of-news-to-east-texas/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "These national journalists are building a local site to bring a different kind of news to East Texas." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified April 27, 2017. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/04/these-national-journalists-are-building-a-local-site-to-bring-a-different-kind-of-news-to-east-texas/.
Wikipedia
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