Jason Kristufek's We Media Blog

Many people in the industry say local news and information is the last great frontier for media organizations. Some cover a Little League team like they’re the New York Yankees. Others offer a database of information of crime, real-estate and school information for a specific region.
Whatever your philosophy on local news, my view is [...]

There has been some pub recently about an experiment by Howard Owens and Ryan Sholin working with Gatehouse Media to launch a website in a place, Batavia, NY, where Gatehouse doesn’t publish a newspaper. You can read more about it here, here and here.
Here are the basics:

Set up an office on Main Street
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