CUNY Journalism School takes the lead on The Local
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism recently assumed the editorial leadership NYTimes.com’s The Local community web site, which covers the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
The plan is to build on The Times’ work, which first launched in the spring 2009, and to make it more scalable, generating greater community contributions and involvement. (Read more about the project here.
Jere Hester, director of the J-School’s award-winning NYCity News Service, and I just kicked off a Hyperlocal news course that will help feed The Local with news posts and collaborative projects.
Our goal, however, is not just to have ten students cranking out copy for The Local. We’ll take this collaboration as an opportunity to innovate Hyperlocal coverage on a platform that has growing traffic and momentum to make these Hyperlocal projects meaningful to people living in Ft. Greene and Clinton Hill.
We won’t keep the lessons to ourselves but will share them with you here each month, starting with a post next month on nurturing and motivating community contributors.
In the meantime, if you have ideas about what we should try to implement on The Local, please let us know in the comment section.
