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Huffington Post Goes Local in Chicago

Mac Slocum
June 20, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2) | Listen

The Huffington Post started as an aggregate political blog, but founder Arianna Huffington is now eyeing something bigger: local news coverage.

Chicago will serve as Huffington's local guinea pig. From The Guardian:

[Arianna] Huffington said the Chicago site would aggregate news, sports, crime, arts and business news from different local sources as well as contributions from bloggers in what will be the first of a series of projects in "dozens of US cities". The Chicago site will initially be curated by just one editor.

Similar hyper-local efforts have struggled to achieve sustainability. The Guardian says the Huffington Post received $10 million in funding in 2006 and 2007, and the company is pursuing additional investments to fund the local expansion.

(Via mediabistro)

Local Focus through Community Newspaper Book Reviews

Peter Brantley
April 22, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Listen

Sanford Thatcher, the departing head of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), advises his colleagues to go local by way of the review:

It seems to me that there is likely to be no better market for the general-interest titles that we all publish from time to time than the college towns in which many of our presses are located, and if we all were to organize ourselves in such a fashion as to help our local newspapers run reviews of these books written by people in our own communities, we can thereby help offset at least some of the damage done by the disappearance of reviews from the major city dailies. Naturally, I have an interest in this idea's catching on elsewhere because I feel a conflict of interest in having any of our Penn State Press books reviewed by the CDT [Centre Daily Times], at least while I'm serving as coordinator. So I hope some of you will piggyback on our effort and get in touch with your own local paper's editor to see if there might be interest in creating such a "user-generated" book review operation in your community. Our CDT editor is really keen about this initiative, and I wouldn't be surprised if editors elsewhere would echo that sentiment.

Tags: academic academic publishing book reviews community local newspapers

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