"Can Anyone Tap the $100 Billion Potential of Hyperlocal News?" That question was posed in the headline of an article in Fast Company chronicling the recent high-profile moves in online community news ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Damian Radcliffe, a Tow fellow and journalism professor at the University of Oregon, has done research on small-market ...

Hyperlocal publications may not have the geographic reach of behemoths like The New York Times or Wall Street Journal, but that doesn’t lessen their importance to the people within their readership.

Former “O.C. Weekly” editor Gustavo Arellano says the alt-weekly is dead after a “dark autumn” of outgoing hyperlocal publications. Arellano points to a long list including NYC’s “Village Voice,” ...