The Boston Globe and Boston University reached agreement whereby BU students will cover neighborhood and town news for Boston.com's Your Town hyper-local Websites as part of College of Communications studies.
Launching later this fall, the program will be coordinated by BU professors and Globe editors.
Boston.com has 43 Your Town sites in and around Boston serving as digital town centers. Over the past several weeks, Boston.com launched 12 neighborhood sites within Boston and announced plans for more.
The collaboration "provides Your Town readers with even more local coverage and enriches the educational experience of BU's students," Globe Regional Editor David Dahl said in a statement.
College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler said the agreement expanded a commitment to provide students with real reporting experience while supplying in-depth coverage of news affecting the greater Boston area. BU journalism students also report for New England newspapers through Washington and statehouse programs.
Students' work will appear along with other sources of content on Your Town sites, which feature stories by Your Town correspondents, links to area blogs, Globe stories, and user-submitted photos and articles.
Your Town was launched in 2009 to deliver an online community experience that allows readers to learn, contribute, and share information about life in their own hometown. Users can access each Your Town site via the portal at www.boston.com/yourtown, where residents in locations not yet covered are encouraged to request a site for their town.
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