Video: Joseph Stashko talks to Media Trust about Blog Preston

Just thought I’d flag up this video from the Media Trust, which gives an overview of Blog Preston.

The site was started by myself in January 2009 as a place for news and information about Preston, after the Preston Citizen (weekly paper) withdrew from the city.

Joseph Stashko is co-editor of the site and gives an insight into what his role involves, how we live blogged the general election, cover stories and much more.

It’s worth a watch to help understand how a community news site goes about operating and how ‘hyperlocal’ is measured by us.

Handing over a hyperlocal site

In reading Will Perrin’s excellent post about the continuity of hyperlocal blogs and the ‘hyperlocal life cycle’, it also reminded me of a post I wrote about handing over Blog Preston to Joseph Stashko and Andy Halls in May 2010.

Twice I’ve tried handing over the reigns of Blog Preston – a site I set up in January 2009 to be a hub of community news, views and information about Preston in Lancashire – to someone else, and twice I’ve had to get back involved. I thought I’d expand on Will’s points about how you can find continuinty for your hyperlocal site and keeping it going. Read the rest of this entry »