Comments on: Is Hyper-Local News Doomed, or Did TBD Just Get Sandbagged? http://gigaom.com/2011/02/25/is-hyper-local-news-doomed-or-did-tbd-just-get-sandbagged/ Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Is the corporate newsroom hyperlocal? | Online Newsroom http://gigaom.com/2011/02/25/is-hyper-local-news-doomed-or-did-tbd-just-get-sandbagged/#comment-609974 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:16:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=302513#comment-609974 [...] local news startup TBD.com.  While I’ll leave the debate to seasoned journalism experts like Matthew Ingram and Alan Mutter, I will say that I’m in the glass-is-half-full camp and leave it at [...]

]]> By: Hyper-Local News: It’s About the Community or It Fails: Tech News and Analysis « http://gigaom.com/2011/02/25/is-hyper-local-news-doomed-or-did-tbd-just-get-sandbagged/#comment-604459 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:16:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=302513#comment-604459 [...] with that. Some have argued in the wake of local site TBD’s closure in Washington that hyper-local simply doesn’t scale as a business, something journalism professor Jay Rosen also wondered about in a recent comment on [...]

]]> By: pceasy http://gigaom.com/2011/02/25/is-hyper-local-news-doomed-or-did-tbd-just-get-sandbagged/#comment-601989 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:44:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=302513#comment-601989 Well first we should say that TBD was not a hyperlocal website. It’s focus was on the entire DC region. I believe it was a great idea, just poorly executed.

Is Hyperlocal news doomed? Well yes if you only decide to report on Patch. The truth is – is that hyper-local has been successful around the country, no thanks to any corporate egos. Seattle has a few great ones and take a look at this blog in Concord, CA.

http://claycord.com/

]]> By: Brian Ostrovsky http://gigaom.com/2011/02/25/is-hyper-local-news-doomed-or-did-tbd-just-get-sandbagged/#comment-601516 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 05:37:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=302513#comment-601516 It’s fascinating to me that people always talk about hyper-local as being about news, being web-only, and being solely monetized through ad sales. We don’t think it is.

]]> By: Chris Parente http://gigaom.com/2011/02/25/is-hyper-local-news-doomed-or-did-tbd-just-get-sandbagged/#comment-601339 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:55:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=302513#comment-601339 Another good piece. I just wrote up this issue as well, including a link to your 2/9 story. From what I’ve heard, it was more culture clash than strategic failure. Culture eats strategy for breakfast, as the saying goes.

If a link is cool, here it is: http://cparente.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/is-the-future-of-hyper-local-tbd/

]]> By: Surly Girl http://gigaom.com/2011/02/25/is-hyper-local-news-doomed-or-did-tbd-just-get-sandbagged/#comment-601310 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:39:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=302513#comment-601310 Contrary to your headline and characterization (as well as Alan Mutter’s), TBD was never a “hyper-local” site, and as such was not exactly comparable to Backfence or Patch. Although I admit “hyper-local” is a pretty subjective term, TBD was more or less a regional news site for a large metropolitan area, with an affiliated network of independent blogs. Backfence and Patch set up newsgathering operations in very small communities; TBD never did so, perferring to aim for a more generic approach (e.g., news, weather, entertainment, traffic, sports for an area with more than five million people). I won’t comment on whether this is a good or bad approach, but “hyper local” it ain’t.

]]> By: Coolinkr » Is Hyper-Local News Doomed, or Did TBD Just Get Sandbagged?: Tech … http://gigaom.com/2011/02/25/is-hyper-local-news-doomed-or-did-tbd-just-get-sandbagged/#comment-600963 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:04:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=302513#comment-600963 [...] the original post: Is Hyper-Local News Doomed, or Did TBD Just Get Sandbagged?: Tech … Comments [...]

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