Comments on: Hyperlocal voices: Daniel Ionescu, The Lincolnite http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/11/02/hyperlocal-voices-lincoln/ A conversation. Fri, 25 May 2012 00:29:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Lincolnite in the news « Stonebow Media http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/11/02/hyperlocal-voices-lincoln/#comment-17072 The Lincolnite in the news « Stonebow Media Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:28:52 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=10613#comment-17072 [...] Hyperlocal voices: Daniel Ionescu, The Lincolnite Online Journalism Blog (Paul Bradshaw) | November 2, 2010 [...] [...] Hyperlocal voices: Daniel Ionescu, The Lincolnite Online Journalism Blog (Paul Bradshaw) | November 2, 2010 [...]

]]> By: The Worst of Perth http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/11/02/hyperlocal-voices-lincoln/#comment-17071 The Worst of Perth Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:42:31 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=10613#comment-17071 Cool. The worry I would have in a local blog concentrating heavily on bare facts, is that a bigger orgnisation, if it did see some some potential ad revenue from an audience you may have worked hard to build up, can aggregate facts more easily than a local blog usually can, and could move in. That's why I was asking about the community of commenters. The comment nurturing and moderation (like twitter) is another extremely underappreciated art, and if say a small medium paper decided to take over the local scene, it would find it much harder to move against a big, established, frequently commenting community than the bare facts stories. Anyway, yours is not a part of the world I'm familiar with, but if I wanted to do that here, I would be concentrating the majority of my efforts on building a big committed and involved (commenting) community and the highest quality/relevant hyperlocal editorialising. Just some more thoughts from the other side of the world. Cool. The worry I would have in a local blog concentrating heavily on bare facts, is that a bigger orgnisation, if it did see some some potential ad revenue from an audience you may have worked hard to build up, can aggregate facts more easily than a local blog usually can, and could move in. That’s why I was asking about the community of commenters. The comment nurturing and moderation (like twitter) is another extremely underappreciated art, and if say a small medium paper decided to take over the local scene, it would find it much harder to move against a big, established, frequently commenting community than the bare facts stories. Anyway, yours is not a part of the world I’m familiar with, but if I wanted to do that here, I would be concentrating the majority of my efforts on building a big committed and involved (commenting) community and the highest quality/relevant hyperlocal editorialising.

Just some more thoughts from the other side of the world.

]]> By: Daniel Ionescu http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/11/02/hyperlocal-voices-lincoln/#comment-17070 Daniel Ionescu Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:34:27 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=10613#comment-17070 @The Worst of Perth, thanks for your feedback. I'm going to try and address some of your questions: — Media law support: yes, we have a media law adviser on board, who checks the copy retroactively, and is also consulted proactively on stories that could pose legal issues (e.g. certain police reports, courts, etc.) Also, McNae's is our best friend in hard times. — Editorialising: we carried a reader survey a couple of weeks back, and our readers said they like the fact we try and keep it objective, as well as less sensational (besides the headlines, of course, when possible). The only place where sometimes we let see how we feel about certain stories is either in the excerpt (FP story brief), or looking at the answers formulated in some polls. At the same time, we are looking into expanding our comment section, with several new writers. — Call for comments: All stories have comment entry fields below them, so we do not feel there is a certain need to call out of comments in the copy of the story. We trialled this on a few bigger stories, but the impact was minimal, while other stories, without a call for comments, ranked in quite a few. Polls seem to be more effective in this regard. @The Worst of Perth, thanks for your feedback. I’m going to try and address some of your questions:

— Media law support: yes, we have a media law adviser on board, who checks the copy retroactively, and is also consulted proactively on stories that could pose legal issues (e.g. certain police reports, courts, etc.) Also, McNae’s is our best friend in hard times.

— Editorialising: we carried a reader survey a couple of weeks back, and our readers said they like the fact we try and keep it objective, as well as less sensational (besides the headlines, of course, when possible).

The only place where sometimes we let see how we feel about certain stories is either in the excerpt (FP story brief), or looking at the answers formulated in some polls. At the same time, we are looking into expanding our comment section, with several new writers.

— Call for comments: All stories have comment entry fields below them, so we do not feel there is a certain need to call out of comments in the copy of the story. We trialled this on a few bigger stories, but the impact was minimal, while other stories, without a call for comments, ranked in quite a few. Polls seem to be more effective in this regard.

]]> By: Daily bookmarks & places archive | Chipcinnati http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/11/02/hyperlocal-voices-lincoln/#comment-17069 Daily bookmarks & places archive | Chipcinnati Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:46:57 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=10613#comment-17069 [...] Shared Hyperlocal voices: Daniel Ionescu, The Lincolnite | Online Journalism Blog. [...] [...] Shared Hyperlocal voices: Daniel Ionescu, The Lincolnite | Online Journalism Blog. [...]

]]> By: links for 2010-11-02 : The ChipCast || by Chip Mahaney http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/11/02/hyperlocal-voices-lincoln/#comment-17068 links for 2010-11-02 : The ChipCast || by Chip Mahaney Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:05:31 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=10613#comment-17068 [...] Hyperlocal voices: Daniel Ionescu, The Lincolnite | Online Journalism Blog (tags: hyperlocal nebraska) [...] [...] Hyperlocal voices: Daniel Ionescu, The Lincolnite | Online Journalism Blog (tags: hyperlocal nebraska) [...]

]]> By: The Worst of Perth http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/11/02/hyperlocal-voices-lincoln/#comment-17067 The Worst of Perth Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:43:25 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=10613#comment-17067 "A woman was robbed of her purse on the High Street by a man with purple spots on his nose." Heh. I can dig it. A question that may be interesting to the hyperlocal providers Daniel. Any legal support? How do you deal with that side, or is avoidance your main ploy? (As mine is) And, I'm interested in this, "Our reporting is as objective as possible, and the lead writers do not write opinion pieces." Why no editorialising? Does this not feel a little impersonal, given that one of the strengths of the hyperlocal is it's personal feel. What is objective in your view? I looked at your piece on rentals http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2010/10/city-house-market-full-of-reluctant-landlords/ I felt (my humble opinion) was that it was crying out for the locals' quotes about just what this means for the area. There's not even a call for comments from locals. Sorry just my opinion of course, but these things are things struck me immediately on looking at your site. Keep up the good hyperlocal work. “A woman was robbed of her purse on the High Street by a man with purple spots on his nose.”

Heh. I can dig it.

A question that may be interesting to the hyperlocal providers Daniel. Any legal support? How do you deal with that side, or is avoidance your main ploy? (As mine is)

And, I’m interested in this, “Our reporting is as objective as possible, and the lead writers do not write opinion pieces.”
Why no editorialising? Does this not feel a little impersonal, given that one of the strengths of the hyperlocal is it’s personal feel. What is objective in your view?

I looked at your piece on rentals http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2010/10/city-house-market-full-of-reluctant-landlords/
I felt (my humble opinion) was that it was crying out for the locals’ quotes about just what this means for the area. There’s not even a call for comments from locals. Sorry just my opinion of course, but these things are things struck me immediately on looking at your site.

Keep up the good hyperlocal work.

]]> By: Paul Bradshaw http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/11/02/hyperlocal-voices-lincoln/#comment-17066 Paul Bradshaw Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:02:30 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=10613#comment-17066 No, it's the UK site. No, it’s the UK site.

]]> By: Hmm http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/11/02/hyperlocal-voices-lincoln/#comment-17065 Hmm Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:43:11 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=10613#comment-17065 I think you meant http://lincolnite.com/ which is from the US, rather than a site from Lincoln, England? The Royal Guards didn't hint to the mixup? :) I think you meant http://lincolnite.com/ which is from the US, rather than a site from Lincoln, England? The Royal Guards didn’t hint to the mixup? :)

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