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In journalism, local news refers to news coverage of events in a local context which would not normally be of interest to those of other localities, or otherwise be of national or international scope.
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[edit] Television
Opt-outs of local television news frequently occur during, before or after national news programming. In certain countries/regions such as the United States local news is provided on local channels (some of which are network affiliates). In other countries such as the United Kingdom most local news is provided on a national channel with similar branding and studio design to that of the national news. Examples of this include BBC News and its regional news-teams including BBC North West Tonight and BBC Newsline and ITV News with its regional franchises including ITV Granada and UTV.
[edit] Hyperlocal
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The term "hyperlocal" is sometimes used to refer to news coverage of community-level events. Typical mainstream media do not cover topics with narrow interest like street repair or local health inspection results, and instead focus on regional, national, and global concerns and trends. Hyperlocal media has created a niche for themselves by only covering narrow-interest stories related to a specific region, city, or neighborhood. The increased usage of digital media devices (e.g. photo and video cameras, audio recorders), blogs, new media, and participation in social media, has made hyperlocal media content cheaper to produce and distribute. Despite its apparent antithesis to mainstream media outlets, hyperlocal media may draw the interest of mainstream media to increase dwindling advertising dollars coming in to their media sites.
Some initiatives are made for this purpose in the USA by the company Marchex, and in FRANCE by the network Proxiti. They are developing networks of thousands hyperlocal news sites like www.10282.net (Manhattan 212) or www.75016.info (paris 16eme arrondissement).
Part of the difficulty with hyperlocal news may be related to its level of specificity. Some news is interesting on a regional basis, some on a city-wide basis, some is interesting for a neighborhood, while some is only interested to those within earshot. Steven Berlin Johnson discusses the "Pothole paradox": news of the repair of a pothole on my street is very interesting to me; news of the repair on a street only a few blocks away is the least interesting news imaginable.[1]
Tim Lindgren has used the term "place blogging" to describe weblogs that focus on events and people with a hyperlocal scope.[2]
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- ^ Steven Berlin Johnson, "The Pothole Paradox," Blog
- ^ Tim Lindgren, "Blogging Places: Locating Pedagogy in the Whereness of Weblogs," Kairos 10.1, Fall, 2005
