This Week in Review: AOL snaps up TechCrunch, effecting social change online, and hyperlocal minds meet

Source Nieman Journalism Lab on October 1, 2010 0 Comments
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community news sites, Block by block community news summit, Michele McLellan
"This Week in Review: AOL snaps up TechCrunch, effecting social change online, and hyperlocal minds meet," Nieman J Lab

]Helping hyperlocal news thrive: Many of the U.S.’ hyperlocal-news pioneers gathered in Chicago late last week for the Block By Block Community News Summit hosted by the Knight Digital Media Center’s Michele McLellan and NYU j-prof Jay Rosen. A variety of ideas, tips, anecdotes flew back and forth at the event, which was ably summarized by the Lab’s Megan Garber as well as Lauren Kirchner of The Columbia Journalism Review and Polly Kreisman of the local-news blog Lost Remote. You can also check out videos of several of the sessions at the Reynolds Journalism Institute.

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Topics Citizen & Community News, Research, RJI Fellows, RJI in the News
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