Thursday, October 29th, 2009...12:09 pm
Omaha World-Herald buys hyperlocal WikiCity
The Omaha World-Herald Co. announced this week it has purchased WikiCity, a hyperlocal site with local content for just more than 22,000 U.S. communities that I wrote about on this blog in August.
WikiCity, which started in late 2008 and launched publicly this summer, is a bit like CitySearch with its telephone-book-like listings of restaurants and businesses and similar to BackFence with its aim to be a user-generated hyperlocal site. But it lets readers update their own communities pages, giving a bit of a Wikipedia feel.
When I wrote about it this summer, I noted that one of the best potential benefits of something like WikiCity would be to team up with local news organizations. That, in essence, is what happened.
Read the rest of the post at Nieman Journalism Lab.
I'm Gina Masullo Chen, a 20-year veteran newspaper journalist who is a Ph.D. candidate in mass communications. I want to see journalism survive. I believe news organizations need to embrace new media, change their thinking, improve their content and innovate. Read more about me 
3 Comments
October 29th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Gina, you should get a consultant’s fee!
November 5th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
@Amber Smith – Hmmm.
April 8th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
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