May 6, 2024
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What we're talking about here is innovation; not invention of internships, but the rapid usage of new kind of internship system applied at some scale. The scale immediately makes Patch U, as the project is called, something to be noticed, and significantly adds to the amount of coverage that ...
Read MoreAOL, business model, Dave Hunke, digital revenue, Patch, print, SeattlePI.com, USA Today, Warren Webster
Read MoreThe Argo funding is one of the first things that tells us about the business of this effort. Like Silicon Valley startups, the effort is about building a product that seems to meet a clear audience need, building that audience — and then finding a sustainable business model. That’s what has ...
Read MoreWhy couldn't newspaper companies do what Patch announced -- a nationwide network of hyperlocal sites? "It's the legacy crap," one veteran with feet in both camps told me. "Instead of burning it down and starting all over, they just experiment."
Read MoreSo who's the ad competition? Maybe we should ask, who isn't? ...The question, here, is one of sustainability. Certainly, there's the question whether Patch can sustain itself, as its parent AOL struggles to find a new identity and growing business model. Then, there's the question of the ...
Read MoreType "San Ramon shooting" into Google, and on both web and news search, Patch comes up first. In addition, Patch's story elicited nine comments by late Thursday evening; Contra Costa's none. A small sample, but therein may lay this emerging tale of newspaper vs. Patch competition. The story ...
Read More"...I’m a little surprised that Patch’s expansion hasn’t received more, well, notes of concern among traditional local news organizations and journalism startups". Bergman talks about the posting of 300 new jobs and the "veritable carpet-bombing run of new local and hyperlocal news sites".
Read MoreLocal -- not long ago the domain of newspaper, TV and radio behemoths so dominant that barriers to entry made competition seem unthinkable -- is now open territory, a vacuum to be filled by a combination of youthful journalistic energy and state-of-the-art technology.
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