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Newsweek: Hyperlocal journalism in South Orange and Millburn |
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It's good to see that a national weekly has finally noticed the hyperlocal journalism movement in New Jersey.
The reporter, Johnnie L. Roberts, lives in South Orange. Here's the top of the story with a link to the original.
Until recently, a fender bender or a gas leak in Millburn, N.J., was treated like the minor event that it is. Then Jennifer Connic arrived in town. Connic, 32, is the editor of a Web site called Millburn.Patch.com, part of a chain of local sites called Patch.com, and since February she's been covering mundane events in this suburban town of 20,000 residents with a zeal most journalists re-serve for a big scoop.
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The AlternativePress.com coming to Westfield |
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Written by Bruno Tedeschi
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Thursday, 30 April 2009 12:01 |
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The AlternativePress.com is expanding its reach into Union County tomorrow with the launch of its latest hyperlocal news website for Westfield.
“We are pleased to announce this latest expansion of TheAlternativePress.com into another important New Jersey community,” said Michael Shapiro, the news site’s founder and CEO. “Over the last six months, we have proved that New Jersey residents are ready to embrace a user-friendly, hyperlocal news site that provides professionally-reported news, written by paid reporters.
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Hyperlocal web site expands to 3 Union County towns |
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Written by Bruno Tedeschi
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Friday, 13 March 2009 16:16 |
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The hyperlocal news site Patch.com is expanding from its base in Essex County to three upscale Union County communities.
Patch.com announced today that it would launch community web sites in Westfield, Scotch Plains and Summit.
The move comes only a few months after the startup lanched sites in the Essex County communities of South Orange, Maplewood and Milburn.
"Our goal is to make people's lives better by providing quick and easy access to the news and information that is most important to them, and we are excited to bring this much-needed resource to Summit, Westfield and Scotch Plains," said Jon Brod, CEO of Patch. "These are three towns with very involved residents, great businesses, strong governments, exceptional school systems and a real sense of community pride -- in short, everything Patch is built to engage."
Patch's expansion into Union County intensifies the competition among entrepeneurial journalists for one of the state's wealthiest and most educated audiences.
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Alternative Press announces advisory boards |
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New Providence, NJ New Jersey's first all-online daily local newspaper, TheAlternativePress.com, today announced it has formed a series of local Advisory Boards of philanthropists, executives, and community and political leaders who live in each of the towns served by TheAlternativePress.com. The site also announced that the chairs of each of the local advisory boards will serve on an overall Advisory Board for the site.
TheAlternativePress.com is locally owned and operated and presently covers Berkeley Heights, Livingston, Millburn/Short Hills, New Providence and Summit. It has a team of more than 40 paid reporters and more than a dozen columnists, all living in and around the site's coverage area. The site launched on October 1, 2008, and recently received its 1,000,000th hit.
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The County Watcher cleared of libel |
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Written by Administrator
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Sunday, 09 November 2008 11:06 |
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A libel suit filed by a Union County official against The County Watcher, a local blog published by the Union County Watchdog Association, has been dismissed.
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