A Consolidation of Brooklyn Hyper-Local
This particular media merger did not exactly make headlines. But you can bet any and all interested in the future of hyper-local will be paying close attention.
From metropolitan news reporter Vivian Yee’s article in the New York Times:
Last week, [Ned] Berke merged Sheepshead Bites and its sister site, Bensonhurst Bean, into Corner Media, a network of neighborhood blogs run by Liena Zagare that will now reach a combined 250,000 readers every month. Zagare and Berke, who is a senior editor as well as an associate publisher of the network, say their approach — intensely local, intimate and community-based, with a heart — is the future of hyper-local journalism, a business that industry watchers have long forecast as the future of journalism itself.
In 2011, Zagare sold her previous network of hyper-local sites to Patch and joined the AOL company as special projects director, before parting ways.
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