Listen to the locals. For hyperlocal publishers who want the inside scoop on what’s really going on in the communities they cover, in the form of user contributions, there’s no better source than the locals who live there. But getting people to switch from passively reading the news to actively engaging with it is a…
Two-thirds of adults in the U.S. now get their news from social media, and younger adults are even more likely to name social media as a main source of information. While major media outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post have the budgets to hire social media strategists and take full advantage of…