Comments on: Blog Networks Try One More Time to Turn Local Journalism Into Cash

By: The Padrino

The Padrino — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:06:51 +0000

Do they allow you to write reviews?

By: GrowthSpur

GrowthSpur — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:28:19 +0000

Joe: This isn't really about the bloggers within the Journal Register newspaper staffs (though they're welcome to participate); this is about empowering the many independent bloggers who are providing coverage of many different facets of the communities the papers serve. That's how Journal Register will supplement its own staff coverage.

By: Joseph N DiStefano

Joseph N DiStefano — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:15:11 +0000

I write a daily business column for the Philadelphia Inquirer and blog for philly.com, so Journal Register's Philly sites should be among our competition. Competition is good, I'd like to see them succeed, to a point. But their blogs in the Philly area don't provide a lot of local news, so far. It's more like potentially interesting individuals ruminating. Their papers are very small and maybe don't sustain the population needed to find more strong content. Or else they would need a lot more staff support to make this work.

By: Anna Tarkov

Anna Tarkov — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:23:05 +0000

Great piece. Here in Chicago we have the Tribune company doing ChicagoNow (http://www.chicagonow.com/), but with, I feel, a totally different approach than TBD and GrowthSpur. I prefer the latter.

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:17:19 +0000

Well, our research at CUNY showed businesses across the country making it in hyperlocal and also looked at the revenue potential that makes companies such as Patch and Growthspur look sane for going after it. You can see all the models and all the assumptions behind them at http://newsinnovation.com and http://newsinnovation.com/models