New Hyperlocals Start As Others Expand

By: Margaret Quilter | NetNewsCheck

The landscape for hyperlocal news sites heading into 2015 will grow a little more populous, while established sites look to expand their portfolios and focus on diversifying revenue growth and mobile accessibility.

“So many of us started in the depths of the recession and we have managed to work our way through that,” says Dylan Smith, president of the hyperlocal trade group Local Independent Online News Publishers and editor and publisher of Tucson Sentinel in Arizona. “It is never easy to keep a business going, but the light at the end of the tunnel is shining a little brighter.