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Local reporting online: how to cover your area

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Hannah Waldram
Hannah Waldram

Local reporting online Lessons from the Cardiff beatblogger The document discusses lessons from the Cardiff beatblogger on providing local online reporting through hyperlocal content, civic engagement by liveblogging council meetings and mapping police tweets and council documents, campaigns on issues important to local communities which can reconnect local newspapers to readers and make them relevant again. It also discusses offline community engagement and collaboration projects as well as contact information.

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Local reporting online Lessons from the Cardiff beatblogger
Introduction Content Civic engagement Campaigns Community Collaboration
1 Content
2 Civic engagement Liveblog council meetings Police tweets Map council documents Open data
3 Campaigns "Guardian Cardiff has had a galvanising effect on the coverage of issues important to local communities.? ? "Local newspapers need to cover the events that matter to communities. It will make them relevant again to their readership. Hyper-local coverage will ensure they re-connect with the many people who have fallen out of the habit of buying their local newspaper."? ? - Keith Philip Jones, journalism.co.uk comments
4 Communities
Offline engagement
Collaboration Projects: Why is That Empty? Welsh Elections crowdmap Arcades project 5
Contact ? @hrwaldram hrwaldram.co.uk hrwaldram@gmail.com @GdnCardiff guardian.co.uk/cardiff [email_address] Links My slideshare Hyperlocal update - Damian Radcliffe Be a community organiser - by Robert Niles Beatblogging what is it? - Sarah Hartley Questions?

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Local reporting online: how to cover your area

  • 1. Local reporting online Lessons from the Cardiff beatblogger
  • 2. Introduction Content Civic engagement Campaigns Community Collaboration
  • 4. 2 Civic engagement Liveblog council meetings Police tweets Map council documents Open data
  • 5. 3 Campaigns "Guardian Cardiff has had a galvanising effect on the coverage of issues important to local communities.? ? "Local newspapers need to cover the events that matter to communities. It will make them relevant again to their readership. Hyper-local coverage will ensure they re-connect with the many people who have fallen out of the habit of buying their local newspaper."? ? - Keith Philip Jones, journalism.co.uk comments
  • 8. Collaboration Projects: Why is That Empty? Welsh Elections crowdmap Arcades project 5
  • 9. Contact ? @hrwaldram hrwaldram.co.uk hrwaldram@gmail.com @GdnCardiff guardian.co.uk/cardiff [email_address] Links My slideshare Hyperlocal update - Damian Radcliffe Be a community organiser - by Robert Niles Beatblogging what is it? - Sarah Hartley Questions?