The New York Times is running an article looking at "hyperlocal" web sites as replacements to traditional newspapers. The catalyst for the concept is obviously the fact that some newspapers have been dying off, at least in print form.
The piece looks at web startups Outside.in, Patch, which "collect links to articles and blogs and often supplement them with data from local governments and other sources." It is an interesting look into some possibilities for local news options beyond the local paper.
"Inherent in those two paragraphs is this idea that there’s some kind of separation between so-called 'professionally written news' and what local news blogs are doing,"
Matt makes a great point. It's not a new point. It's often made in the whole blogger/journalist debate, but he phrases it well.
So I ask you, what separates a blogger from a journalist? I've seen plenty of credible and non-credible bloggers, as well as credible and non-credible "journalists." Where is the line? Your thoughts? commented on this article below saying that his opinions were misrepresented by the Times. Kind of ironic, given the subject of discussion.
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