The New York Times Shutters The Local: New Jersey
Despite the Garden State’s meteoric rise in pop culture currency, The New York Times has folded its hyperlocal New Jersey site. Like the paper’s locally-focused project in Brooklyn, the site was called “The Local.”
After running for a little over a year, The Local published the following:
More than a year and a half ago The New York Times set out on an experiment in hyperlocal and collaborative journalism. We devoted two full-time reporters to the effort, as well as an editor and a number of support and advisory staff journalists.
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