Hyperlocal

Reports

• The Democratic Society: contributed a thinkpiece – “Hey! Regulator! Leave those Hyperlocals alone!” – to a report on Media Regulation & Democracy.
• NESTA:  “Here and Now: hyper-local in the UK” (15,000 word report)
• Online Networked Neighbourhoods Study:  Paper: “Broadcast Community Media in the UK”, Nov, 2010
• Ofcom: Regional and Local Media in the UK: sections on community and hyper-local media, Sept 2009

Articles

• Journalism.co.uk: ‘Hyperlocal media is coming in from the cold’, 1 May, 2013
• Online Journalism Blog: Hyperlocal Voices: Geoff Bowen, Sheffield Forum, 23 Mar, 2013
• Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network: Cardiff University launches UK’s first Centre for Community Journalism, 13 Mar, 2013
• BBC College of Journalism: Hyperlocal and happy to be in print, 5 Mar, 2013
• Online Journalism Blog: Hyperlocal Voices: Paul Smith, HU17.net, 25 Feb, 2013
• Online Journalism Blog: Hyperlocal Voices: Simon Pipe, St Helena Online, 04 Oct 2012
• Online Journalism Blog: Hyperlocal Voices: Matt Brown, Londonist, 16 Aug 2012
• Online Journalism Blog: Hyperlocal Voices: Richard Gurner, Caerphilly Observer, 25 Jul 2012
• Online Journalism Blog: Hyperlocal Voices: Ed Walker and Ryan Gibson, Blog Preston, 02 Jul 2012
• Online Journalism Blog: Hyperlocal Voices: Rachel Howells, Port Talbot MagNet, 22 Jun 2012
• Online Journalism Blog: Hyperlocal Voices: Zoe Jewell and Tim Dickens, Brixton Blog, 12 Jun 2012
• BBC College of Journalism: Walking the local TV tightrope, 17 May, 2012
• Journalism.co.uk: Why hyperlocals should not rule out print, 01 May, 2012
• Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network: UK Hyperlocal Challenges And Opportunities 30 Apr, 2012
• Street Fight: Report Identifies Elements of Hyperlocal Success in the U.K. 27 Apr, 2012
• The Democratic Society: Media regulation: leave hyperlocal out of this, 23 Apr, 2012
• Online Journalism Blog: Location, Location, Location, 01 Feb, 2012
• Online Journalism Blog: 2011: the UK hyper-local year in review, 04  Jan, 2012
• Online Journalism Blog: The rise of local media sales partnerships, 07 Dec, 2011
• Online Journalism Blog: Why hyper-local matters, 15 Sep, 2011
• Wales Home: What’s the hype about hyper-local?, 11 Feb, 2011
• Talk About Local: Local Video Online, 01 Oct, 2010

Research

• Hyper-Local Insights, Nov-Dec 2011, 12 Jan, 2012
• The UK hyper-local year in review, 2011, 02 Jan, 2012
• UK and US Hyper Local Update: Sept-Oct 2011 – 20 key developments, 17 Nov, 2011
• Hyper-Local update: 20 key developments, June – August 2011 , 5 Sep, 2011
• Hyper-Local definitions and trends, July 2011, 8 Jul, 2011
• Hyper-Local update: 20 key developments, April – May 2011, 16 Jun, 2011
• Hyper-Local update: 20 key developments, February – March 2011, 15 Apr, 2011
• 21st Century News, 01 Apr, 2011
• Hyper-Local update: 20 key developments, December 2010 – January 2011, 4 Feb, 2011
• Introduction to Hyper-Local media: full 12 inch version, 2 Dec, 2010

 Presentations & Guest Lectures

• Cardiff University, Community Journalism Conference, Presentation on the UK Opportunity for hyperlocal media and community journalism, 16 Jan 2013
• Annenberg-Oxford Summer Institute: Hyper-local definitions and trends, 8 Jul, 2011
• BBC Innovation Academy: Conference on 21st Century News, 01 Apr, 2011
• Birmingham City University: Introduction to hyper-local, 01 Dec, 2010
• Inside Ofcom (internal briefing):  Introduction to hyper-local media, 12 Nov, 2010

Other

• Citation: Roy Greenslade in the Guardian provided a detailed summary – and feedback – on my thinkpiece about hyperlocal media and regulation, 15 Aug 2012
  
• Judge, Destination Local, a $0.8m fund for 10 innovation projects (next generation local media services) by NESTA, June 2012
• Interviewee, #jpod – Hyperlocal news: Struggles for sustainability online and successes in print, journalism.co.uk podcast, April 2012
• Interviewee, PhD thesis on “Community media policies in the US, UK and Canada” (Annenberg) 2010
• Steering Group member, for study into London’s Digital Neighbourhoods, 2010
• Advisor to Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) for C&binet Ministerial seminar on hyper-local news, Oct, 2009 (also participated)
• Sponsor and Host for three hyper-local unconferences (Stoke, Leeds, London) 2009-10