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z2007-07-30- Gannett Cincinnati Hyperlocal
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Bill Seitz is a Product Manager/CTO with a track-record of bringing a business perspective to building agile product-development teams for start-ups, and is seeking a senior role in an entrepreneurial organization building disruptive Internet-driven products.
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The [Cincinnati Enquirer], owned by Gannett, is trying to embrace the Hyper Local Citizen Journalism model. Contributors submit to one of 233 neighborhood Web sites, each aimed at a town or community in the Cincinnati area. [Linda Parker] approves the submission ("I almost never reject one," she says), scans it for "the F-word," and posts it to the site. "A few years ago, these would have come across the transom as press releases and been ignored."... While much of the citizen-produced writing is about church picnics and school sports, readers are also contributing to serious journalistic investigations, breathing new life into a genre that is increasingly considered an endangered species at metropolitan newspapers.
Here's their list of local areas.
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog