A Hyperlocal Co-op Hopes to Bloom in Community ‘News Desert’
Longtime print journalist Tom Stites says the model for his Web-based Banyan Project is that of a co-op — the economic and social structure for sizable minority chunks of the American power industry and agriculture, as well as credit unions and housing developments. We talked to him recently to find out more about what his “third-way” media approach is all about…
Hyperlocal Execs’ 2014 Predictions (Part Two): Locu, Radius, Placed
As we have for the past couple of years, Street Fight recently asked a number of hyperlocal luminaries to weigh in with their predictions for where local is headed in 2014. We ran the first installment of their responses yesterday — here are a bunch more…