Hyperlocal news: profits a long way off. The promise for hyperlocal's place in UK news is there, the boundless optimism is not in doubt and there's even hints of a local business model emerging.
But the delivery of quality postcode-level news across most of the country is still a long way off, and sustainable revenues and – dare we say it – profits are even further. There wasn't much at the AOP's Microlocal Forum on Wednesday to suggest that either semi-amateur, entrepreneur-led start-ups or big-league newspaper publishers will make real successes of hyperlocal in 2010. De l'hyperlocal révolutionnaire: Nase Adresa. Alors que tout le monde parle de LeWeb09, je vais revenir sur le World Editors Forum où j'étais la semaine dernière. De toutes les présentations et conférences, celle qui m'a le plus surpris et convaincu vient de l'est de l'Europe. Il ne s'agit pas encore des polonais de Gazeta Wyborca, dont les blogs new media se sont déjà faits l'écho. La surprise vient cette fois de République Tchèque, où a démarré cette année la publication de Nase Adresa ("notre adresse", en Tchèque), un projet d'hebdomadaire hyperlocal un peu fou.
J'ai eu l'occasion d'interviewer Roman Gallo, le directeur de la stratégie média de PPF, le groupe qui est derrière Nase Adresa. Awards. Pulitzer Prizes Announced: Links to the Winning Journalism - Spe. Investigative Reporting Deadly Choices. Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum The smell of death was overpowering the moment a relief worker cracked open one of the hospital chapel’s wooden doors. Inside, more than a dozen bodies lay motionless on low cots and on the ground, shrouded in white sheets. Here, a wisp of gray hair peeked out. There, a knee was flung akimbo. A pallid hand reached across a blue gown. Explanatory Reporting: Woman’s Shattered. Then her turned bloody.
Her kidneys shut down. knocked her unconscious. The grew so relentless that doctors had to put her in a for nine weeks. When she emerged, she could no longer walk. The affliction had ravaged her nervous system and left her paralyzed. Ms. “I ask myself every day, ‘Why me?’ Meat companies and grocers have been barred from selling ground beef tainted by the virulent strain of E. coli known as O157:H7 since 1994, after an outbreak at Jack in the Box restaurants left four children dead.
International Reporting. National Reporting. Local Reporting Cashing in on Kids. Child-care scams rake in thousands The newspaper's investigation of the taxpayer-financed child-care system known as Wisconsin Shares uncovers a trail of phony companies, fake reports and shoddy oversight.
Child care loopholes lead to easy money A system of generous rules and lax regulations paves the way for parents and providers to abuse the system - sometimes in ways that are perfectly legal. One example: Sisters or other relatives can stay home, swap kids and receive taxpayer dollars. Millions down the drain The state has overpaid day care providers at least $13.7 million in recent years - including millions of dollars spent on bogus child care that was never delivered, according to the state's own records. Local news.
Originally published November 29, 2009 at 11:02 AM | Page modified November 30, 2009 at 1:30 AM A 37-year-old Tacoma man, Maurice Clemmons, is being sought for questioning in the execution-style shooting of four Lakewood police officers this morning, according to law-enforcement officials.
Clemmons was identified as a person of interest in the slayings, but not as a suspect. Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said Clemmons had been seen in the area of the shootings at the time they occurred. Clemmons, who was recently released from jail, has an extensive criminal record in Pierce County and Arkansas, court records show. He currently faces eight criminal charges in Washington state. Criticism Capturing the art of moving. Feature Writing Fatal Distraction: The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still.
He hunched forward in the sturdy wooden armchair that barely contained him, sobbing softly into tissue after tissue, a leg bouncing nervously under the table. Commentary:Kathleen Parker. Editorial Writing: Breaking News Photography. Des Moines Register photographer Mary Chind was awarded the Pulitzer Prize today for her dramatic photo of a construction worker rescuing a woman from the Des Moines River.
Chind’s winning photo showed construction worker Jason Oglesbee dangling from a crane, reaching down to grab Patricia Ralph-Neely from the roiling water. Ralph-Neely and her husband, Alan Neely, had fallen into the water after their disabled boat went over the Center Street dam in downtown Des Moines June 30. Alan Neely drowned, and rescue workers were unable to reach his wife in the swirling current under the dam.