Comments on: It’s time to add collaboration to the journalism playbook http://www.journalism20.com/blog/2008/10/21/its-time-to-add-collaboration-to-the-journalism-playbook/ How to survive and thrive in the digital age Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:37:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: bree http://www.journalism20.com/blog/2008/10/21/its-time-to-add-collaboration-to-the-journalism-playbook/comment-page-1/#comment-877 bree Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:11:47 +0000 http://www.journalism20.com/blog/?p=76#comment-877 We found exactly that. A reader of our hyperlocal blog recently tweeted that he wanted to set up an automated local news 'scraper' site to aggregate New Westminster information. After he set it up, he tweeted this: #NewWest - threw together a scraper site http://is.gd/8yvl - And then I realized http://is.gd/8yvv [Tenthtothefraser] does more, and better. 5:27 AM Nov 22nd from web link: http://twitter.com/waferboard/status/1018077241 The role of online hyperlocal coverage is not just to aggregate information that is available online, but also to source and add information that is not currently online (or that is not indexed - too many organizations in our community put information online in PDFs). We currently balance long-form blogging with Twitter updates linking to stories that pertain to New West from around the web. We also maintain a Google events calendar that I update whenever I come across local event info (online or offline). One other thing I'd say about hyperlocal coverage: it should be driven by passionate people who love the place they are writing about. We found exactly that. A reader of our hyperlocal blog recently tweeted that he wanted to set up an automated local news ’scraper’ site to aggregate New Westminster information. After he set it up, he tweeted this: #NewWest – threw together a scraper site http://is.gd/8yvl – And then I realized http://is.gd/8yvv [Tenthtothefraser] does more, and better. 5:27 AM Nov 22nd from web
link: http://twitter.com/waferboard/status/1018077241

The role of online hyperlocal coverage is not just to aggregate information that is available online, but also to source and add information that is not currently online (or that is not indexed – too many organizations in our community put information online in PDFs).

We currently balance long-form blogging with Twitter updates linking to stories that pertain to New West from around the web. We also maintain a Google events calendar that I update whenever I come across local event info (online or offline).

One other thing I’d say about hyperlocal coverage: it should be driven by passionate people who love the place they are writing about.

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