A Hyper-Local News Site That's Chock Full of Ads
Fascinating piece at Nieman Lab by Dan Kennedy, assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University and author of The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age. It’s all about The Batavian, a hyper-local news site in Batavia, New York.
Per the illustration above, The Batavian has something close to the “infinite scroll” Marissa Mayer toyed with recently on the front page of Yahoo. And as you scroll, and scroll, and scroll down through The Batavian, there’s a crazy quilt of local representin’.
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