TV reporter rewards her 20,000 Twitter followers
KIRO-TV traffic reporter Jenni Hogan has more Twitter followers than anyone else in local television, and she works for it. Just take a look at her Twitter account, which is packed full of upbeat replies (“hugsicles?”) to people across Seattle. Now over 20,000 Twitter followers strong, Hogan is just a couple thousand away from @seattletimes [...]
How to beat Patch, the ‘WalMart’ of hyperlocal news
As Patch expands aggressively across the country, its new hyperlocal sites aren’t just competing with traditional media, but also with independent bloggers like Timothy Rutt in Altadena, California. “It’s a WalMart moving in and driving out the mom-and-pop businesses,” he told LA Weekly. So Howard Owens, who runs the indie hyperlocal site The Batavian, has [...]
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