Life After Patch: Former Editors Start Their Own Hyperlocal Sites

Posted Monday, March 10, 2014 10:07 am

By: Kaylin Bugos | AJR

In the last several years, hundreds of journalists took a risk and went to work for a big company that said it could deliver hyperlocal news online across the country.

That company was Patch.

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