Authentically Local

The 2014 LION Summit will bring together the independent online news industry’s leaders for training, networking and conversations about the future of news. Speakers will include successful onl...

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Join your fellow Local Independent Online News Publishers at the inaugural LION Summit: Innovation for Digital Media Entrepreneurs , Oct. 3-5 in Chicago. Conference sessions will include LION P...

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LION Publishers Summit: Innovation for Digital Media Entrepreneurs : > The LION Summit builds on the Block by Block conferences, bringing > together the independent online news�...

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“I can remember a time when I could almost pinpoint a man’s place of origin by his speech. That is growing more difficult now and will in some foreseeable future become impossible… The idio...

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The crew behind a campaign called Eat Your Sidewalk has brought an entirely new meaning to the word local. Forget the vast Agricultural Industrial Complex. Eat Your Sidewalk is about finding bre...

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Most places claim to be authentic and original. Austin, Texas really is. From its famous bat bridge to its Segway tours to its food-courts-on-wheels to the wonderful Drafthouse cinemas, Austin l...

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On September 30, 2011, during the Block by Block conference at Loyola University Chicago, 21 local, independent online publishers from across the United States voted to form a tradeassociation. ...

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Schadenfreude, or gloating over another’s misfortune, is not a pretty thing. By definition.  And though I’m used to being scolded by readers, my upbraiding by some of the Patch rank-and-fi...

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Those of us who are the proprietors of small, independent hyperlocal news blogs have been watching the headlines with glee. Tim Armstrong’s AoL dream may be ending What Happens When AOL Fi...

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Mark Kamine was the original location director of The Sopranos and, since the show ended, he’s moved on to become a production director of movies like “The Fighter” and “Limitless.” A...

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God bless Watchung Booksellers , my local indie bookstore. My third novel, “Cars from a Marriage” just came out in paperback today. But according to Amazon , there is only one copy left in st...

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Authentically Locavore : Let’s hoist a glass to Frank Bruni of The New York Times for his 3,200-word paean to the authentically local food scene of Seattle in Sunday’s Travel section. Bes...

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Authentically Local , a set by johnleesandiego on Flickr. One of Baristanet’s favorite readers, John Lee, felt so connected to the Authentically Local campaign that he assembled an �...

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Today they are standing on every corner in one town outside New York City. They are blonde, female and clearly under 25. They wear bright green T-shirts and visors that say “Patch,” and t...

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Even though they are pretty much the same from town to town, there is nothing more authentically local than a small-town Memorial Day parade.  PHOTO BY S.J.STREETER FOR BARISTANET .

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Clearview Cinemas , a New Jersey-based chain of movie theaters with outposts in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, is owned by Cablevision, a giant corporation with plenty of enemies – whi...

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A few months back, AOL dropped a 58-page handbook on its Patch editors entitled “The AOL Way”. After some introductory remarks on how the operations of its local sites should be organized–b...

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AOL’s Patch.com , with editor in chief Arianna Huffington, is on the aggressive move: it’s right now in about 800 communities, with a goal of 1,000 by the end of 2011. Huffington wants to mak...

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Place has always been important to me. In 1998 I wrote a column for The New York Times about a swim club called Fernwood, which held a special place in my heart. Of all the columns I wrote in my ...

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The restaurant decorated with bright glass bottles, renowned for its French toast and its convivial atmosphere when the tables are set up for outside dining. The dry cleaner who doesn’t need ...

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