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Category Archives: Hyperlocal journalism
Credit the picture, but not the story? A Blottr paradox
While compiling FOI Friday this week, I spotted this story on Blottr: Over 40,000 weapons seized at courts in Birmingham. Blottr describes itself as ‘the people-powered news service.’ It’s a way for ‘citizen journalists’ – I stick the phrase in … Continue reading
Learning from #hyperlocal: An effective way of making councillors accountable
Up and down the country, the annual budget meetings are taking place at local councils. Town Hall budgets are being slashed due to government cuts with most councils having to make very difficult decisions. Central government has been quite good … Continue reading
Councils and hyperlocal ‘bloggers’: It’s the council system which needs changing, not how people are allowed to cover them
A lot of discussion today around Eric Pickles’ demand that councils ‘open up their public meetings to local news ‘bloggers’ and allow filming of council meetings as standard. According to the Department of Communities and Local Government, Mr Pickles feels … Continue reading
#Hyperlocal crime data arrives
There will be a lot of fuss in this morning’s papers about the arrival of the new police mapping tool Police.uk Police division crime data has been available for a long time, but for the first time, details of a … Continue reading
The top 10 most read posts on this blog in 2010
I write about all sorts of stuff on this blog, but try to stay focussed on the stuff I think people would want to read about, so check the top posts stats quite a lot. I’m always amazed that so … Continue reading
A hyperlocal website for an airport
There’s hardly a shortage of websites which cover Heathrow Airport – which is probably what makes Skyport invaluable for those that actually work there. Skyport as a print publication has existed for over 30 years, covering all the news which … Continue reading
1000Flowers conference: Some thoughts
I suspect I’m last to the party in terms of blogging about the 1000 Flowers conference organised by Rick Waghorn in Norwich last week. Suzanne Kavanagh from Skillset has blogged here, Harry Harrold is here on the 1000 Flowers website … Continue reading
Hyperlocal websites: 10 ideas
Over the past few months, I’ve been researching ways that hyperlocal sites and local newspapers/websites could work together. In my opinion, in many cases the relationship between the two is improving although most would probably suggest there’s a way to … Continue reading
Every piece of council spending over £500 to be made public. A huge change for regional journalists?
In January, I blogged about the potentially exciting data.gov.uk website, set up by the government, which is designed to make finding government data easier. Back in January, there were 3,000 datasets available, although many of them won’t have been news … Continue reading
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Top 10 most read journalism posts of 2011 on this blog
When I first started this blog, I was determined that it wouldn’t just be my opinion on stuff, or rants about stuff, either.
I’m not sure how well I’ve done in achieving that aim – but going through the most read posts of 2011 (I’ve done a separate list of FOI posts here): Continue reading →