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    Articles tagged Patch (64)

    Mark CoddingtonAugust 9, 2013
    This Week in Review: Why Bezos is buying the Washington Post, and what’s next for it
    Plus: John Henry buys The Boston Globe, AOL’s Patch cuts, and the rest of the week’s news in journalism and the web.
    Jan SchafferJuly 10, 2013
    In New Jersey, a university teams up with local news orgs to collaborate for impact
    Montclair State’s Center for Cooperative Media is betting there are returns on getting newspapers, broadcasters, bloggers, and wire services all in the same building.
    Dan KennedyJuly 8, 2013
    Charting a locally owned, for-profit future for community news
    Nonprofits are great, but a replicable, sustainable model for making money in local news online is the holy grail. In upstate New York, The Batavian is showing the way.
    Mark CoddingtonFebruary 15, 2013
    This Week in Review: Jonah Lehrer’s lucrative apology, and two differing hyperlocal strategies
    Plus: Self-censorship in the media’s coverage of drones, Time Warner’s possible magazine sales plans, and the rest of the week’s news about the future of news.
    In the Netherlands, a Patch-like hyperlocal network is making money and nearing profit
    With a mix of aggregation and original content, Dichtbij is trying to build a sustainable business — and they’re getting close. Antonio Jiménez
    Mark CoddingtonMay 25, 2012
    This Week in Review: Facebook’s IPO gone bad, and New Orleans loses its daily newspaper
    Plus: A look at Warren Buffett’s big newspaper buy, a bill targeting anonymous comments, and the rest of the week’s big news in media and tech.
    Ken DoctorFebruary 23, 2012
    The newsonomics of hyperlocal’s next round: Patch, Digital First, and more
    The search for a scalable, money-making model for hyperlocal journalism continues, but there are some reasons for optimism.
    Ken DoctorFebruary 15, 2012
    Looking to Europe for news-industry innovation, Part 3: The Swiss “mikrozeitung” small community news model
    In the third and final part of our series on European models of news industry innovation, Ken Doctor looks at a small community publisher in Switzerland that has a local model he’s trying to spread through franchising.
    The newsonomics of the death and life of California news
    In the Bay Area, in Los Angeles, in San Diego — the traditional boundaries of California journalism are shifting fast. Ken Doctor
    Justin EllisJanuary 13, 2012
    Boston.com adds tweets to news feed for Your Town sites
    Boston.com plans to roll out a redesign to its network of 50 hyperlocal sites in the next several months.
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