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Since time immemorial (or at least the mid-’90s), tech and media companies believed that if you rolled up hundreds of tiny hyper-local news sites it would make a boffo business. So many tried and failed, from AOL’s DigitalCities to Backfence to Microsoft...

Taking a look at the news business, most viewers and readers would assume firms that deal in information are destined for extinction. While large newspapers shutter their operations and broadcast outlets form partnerships and try to consolidate, there...

While AOL's local news website neywork Patch struggles to keep its team intact, Google thinks it can do local news right. Google is internally testing a geographically based local news product to add to its Google Now service, Quartz's Christopher Mims...

Welcome to Media Insider, PR Newswire’s round up of journalism, blogging and freelancing stories from the week. “Two journalists and two children take shelter from stone throwing militia” in Downtown Cairo. #EndImpunity Photo by alisdare1 used under...

Blockfeed right now is a US and New York only based affair but it does hyper local news better than anyone else right now and with over 14,000 geolocated news stories they should be pretty pleased. Blockfeed launched on iOS five weeks ago to much acclaim...