Recruiting Bloggers To Patch Will Be 'A Lifestyle' For Editors

Patch’s push earlier this year to add 8,000 unpaid bloggers across the network has been successful, editor Brian Farnham told Anna Tarkov, writing at the Knight Digital Media Center.

In fact, Farnham says, Patch has asked its site editors to recruit another 8,000 bloggers by this fall. Since many of the bloggers who were recruited don’t post consistently, recruiting new bloggers will become a lifestyle for Patch editors. he said.

Tarkov says she checked in with four random Patch sites, including one in Northbrook, Ill.,

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