Sailors Find Debris at North Coronado Island The Patch.com By Nisha Gutierrez-Jaime and Nicole Mooradian A group of sailors performs its own independent investigation into the crash of the Aegean in the Newport Beach to.How some local reporters are sticking it out post- Patch » Nieman Journalism Lab. Wealthy, suburban, outer- metro areas have always been financial strongholds for local journalism. That’s why, back in 2. Patch launched, they seeded the network with sites in the New York suburbs of Connecticut and New Jersey. It’s also why local news reporters in that region who found themselves unemployed after after Patch came crashing down aren’t all throwing in the towel. Kenny Katzgrau is the cofounder of Broadstreet, a New Jersey- based company that builds ad platforms for local news organizations. Before founding Broadstreet in 2. Katzgrau worked on a media exchange at Yahoo; his partner, John Crepezzi, was the lead engineer at Patch. On the day, we sent everyone at Patch an email that basically said, . It’s a buildout of INN’s Largo, which was a buildout of NPR’s Argo. Other journalists who are not ex- Patchers but are working with Broadstreet include Scott Brodbeck, of Reston Now, ARLnow, and Bethesda Now. Michael Dinan was a Patch employee in New Canaan, Connecticut. Now he runs the New Canaanite with his brother Terry using Blargo. The commons, based at Montclair State University, used post- Hurricane Sandy money from the New Jersey Recovery Fund to support the first round of Grow & Strengthen grants last year. Last month, they announced they’d be seeding another round of independent news sites in New Jersey.“When Patch closed down, and we knew it was coming, we thought we were in a good position to convert a lot of those people,” says NJ News Commons director Debbie Galant. They don’t know how to sell — that was never part of their job — but we’re going to help teach them what they need to know.”What do they need to know? First and foremost, Galant says, that continuing without the corporate support of Patch may not be for everyone. With one person selling ads and one person doing the reporting, you can make close to $2. It’s not for everyone. At least one former Patch journalist I spoke with said the years they spent at the company were simply too exhausting to make a return to journalism seem appealing.)Galant offers a wealth of resources to local news sites through the NJ News Commons. In addition to the microgrants, members of the Grow & Strengthen program will have regular business consulting sessions with Maine media veteran Joe Michaud as well as access to NJ News Commons training sessions, peer mentoring and other programming, including an upcoming conference on municipal data. It was at an NJ News Commons session for recently laid off Patch people that The New Canaanite’s Dinan met the Blargo team, and made the decision to stay in the journalism game. Galant and Dinan agree it’s essential to act quickly in moving the local audience many Patch employees built in their neighborhoods to a new platform. They’ve got an audience,” says Galant. But from a financial standpoint, it was important to his business to make the platform switch as quickly and seamlessly as possible. The New Canaanite sent out its first tweet two days after the Patch layoffs were made public: At the end of the day, people like Dinan are still reliant on ad sales to put money in the bank. Although Broadstreet does employ one salesperson for the Blargo network, that’s not their main focus. This puts them in a slightly different category from local ad networks that want to facilitate the sale of hyperlocal publisher inventory.
Instead, Broadstreet wants publishers to do the selling largely on their own, and, in exchange for making that process smoother, earn a 2. So it makes sense that Galant believes what the New Jesrey news ecosystem needs is more of what Katzgrau calls “power sales people.”“We know that we need to develop more sales people in New Jersey, generally,” she says. This article about combating holiday stress was written by Nicole Mooradian for multiple Patch sites in Los Angeles County. Report: Sea Level Rise to Affect Low-Lying Communities. Posted by Nicole Mooradian (Editor), January 07. Sea Level Rise to Affect Low-Lying Communities. Editor Nicole Mooradian aims to post at least one new story per day, even on. You may recognize my name—I was the editor of Redondo Beach Patch and Palos Verdes Patch until AOL sold the company to Hale Global in January. Bar Rescue is an American reality TV series that premiered on Spike on July 17. Jon and Nicole Taffer, along with the show's production company Bongo LLC, have been sued by Dr. Wilkes from Bar 702 (formerly Sand. This article was reported and written by Patch editors Daniel Woolfolk and Nicole Mooradian. A man is on life support after jumping from the Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier in Long Beach shortly after noon Sunday, authorities said.
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