{"id":259,"date":"2011-05-23T13:01:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/?p=259"},"modified":"2011-05-23T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T20:01:12","slug":"may-23-tweetup-why-local-doesnt-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/2011\/05\/23\/may-23-tweetup-why-local-doesnt-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"May 23 \u2013 Tweetup: Why Local Doesn\u2019t Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Jessica Durkin, co-author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mediapolicy.newamerica.net\/publications\/policy\/seattle\">Seattle Media Landscape report for the New America Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be hosting a Twitter chat on Monday (5\/23), 8 pm ET with<br \/>\nBaristanet&#8217;s Debra Galant to talk about the recently launched<br \/>\nAuthentically Local campaign that aims to reclaim locally-owned and<a href=\"http:\/\/authenticallylocal.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px\" title=\"authentically local logo\" src=\"http:\/\/static.tumblr.com\/neq6kdr\/2zvll5bbw\/authenticallylocalbw-800.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><br \/>\noperated news sites. Authentically Local has so far 30 signers to the<br \/>\ncampaign, all hyperlocal or community news publishers from across the<br \/>\ncountry. The campaign emerges as corporate media companies are<br \/>\nlaunching local digital sites to compete for advertising dollars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter Chat: Why local doesn&#8217;t scale, with Debra Galant of Baristanet<br \/>\n@mybxb<br \/>\n#mybxb<br \/>\n8 pm ET<br \/>\nMonday 5\/23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About Authentically Local: <a href=\"http:\/\/authenticallylocal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/authenticallylocal.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nBlog post about AL: Hyperlocal news publishers defend localism in face<br \/>\nof media chain expansion. <a href=\"http:\/\/mybxb.com\/52937772\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mybxb.com\/52937772<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there!<br \/>\nJessica Durkin<br \/>\n<a class='bp-suggestions-mention' href='https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/members\/jessdrkn\/' rel='nofollow'>@jessdrkn<\/a><br \/>\nBlock by Block community manager<br \/>\nNew America Foundation Media Policy Initiative fellow&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jessica Durkin, co-author of the Seattle Media Landscape report for the New America Foundation &#8220;I will be hosting a Twitter chat on Monday (5\/23), 8 pm ET with Baristanet&#8217;s Debra Galant to talk about the recently launched Authentically Local &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/2011\/05\/23\/may-23-tweetup-why-local-doesnt-scale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23,62,177],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-block-by-block","tag-hyperlocal","tag-tweetup"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}