I´ve been spreading your book like a virus in my newsroom, I think it will help us finally go 2.0 (after 2 years of unsuccesful attempts), everybody in El Economista is looking forward to your next course

Marry X-Mas !

I disagree with what you say about college newspapers, however. Perhaps not your conclusion, but your reasoning. I lived and breathed the college newspaper while I was a student (though not in a journalism program). I eventually became its editor and the lessons that I learned about managing people, producing a product, dealing with the consumers, balancing editorial excellence and revenue, were invaluable lessons that prepared me far better for online journalism than any other student or professional experience, even though I hardly thought about the website once. Additionally, because there’s generally not well organized campus media outside of the campus newspapers, these papers have been somewhat insulated from the readership and advertising challenges facing newspapers more generally. Where these newspapers are able to support themselves (or at least provide a reasonably subsidized lab for teaching students invaluable skills) we shouldn’t rush to kill them off, as outdated as they may seem on the surface.

I agree that perhaps online should be taught as well, instead of not at all.

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.

Maybe next time?