Very few people voted in the recent Police and Crime Commissioner elections, with abstainers often citing lack of knowledge. So how many hyperlocal news sites covered the PCC elections, profiling the candidates? And how does this compare to mainstream news coverage?
As I find myself writing a feature story for a hyperlocal news blog, I am faced with a number of concerns, around journalistic expertise, bias, tone, and how my community and subject relate to one another via the author.
BBC Radio 4′s Today programme this morning reported on the rejuvenation of youth clubs who had lost council funding in the last year and were sustaining themselves through community volunteers. BBC News’ Mark Easton reported he had found ”loads and…
On 3rd July I attended the launch of two new projects, Community Media Toolkit and Placebooks. Both dealt with issues around computer literacy and how community-based digital media can be deployed in areas of low/no network or wifi coverage. Placebooks…
In response to my recent research regarding the scale of Hyperlocal publishing, Damian Radcliffe, author of Nesta’s ‘Here and Now’ report, asked me a few questions about the research and what further we can do to better understand the scope…
I was pleased to be asked to talk at the BBC’s Connecting Communities conference on 24th May 2012. I used my 10 minute slot to announce the findings of some research this strand of the Creative Citizenship project had been…
This blog post was originally published at Dave Harte’s blog. I’ve been wondering exactly how many news stories UK Hyperlocal websites publish. Last month I had a meeting with Ofcom where I suggested that it might be a decent amount.…
