The "Evening Edition" approach to community news curation

Last week some web designers and an editor joined forces to revive the "evening edition" approach to news -- long a staple of the newspaper business, which catered to news consumers' availability and willingness to catch up on the news during evening hours.

The new Evening Edition website demonstrates a curation strategy that community and niche news publishers could emulate and expand upon in order to more effectively engage their readers, especially via mobile devices...

Lobbying for online-only legal notices: How community publishers can take action

In the recently concluded session of the NY State Assembly, two bills that would have allowed online-only publication of legal notices failed to pass -- but that won't stop Howard Owens, publisher of the online-only community news site The Batavian, from continuing to push for this potential revenue stream.

Baltimore Fishbowl: Newspaper, not

By Julia Scott

Tearing away the boundaries of her newspaper mentality - all that’s fit to print - enables Susan Dunn to create engaging content that mattered to readers on Baltimore Fishbowl.

Tidbits on where regular folks eat lunch? Yes. Looky loo real estate porn? Absolutely. Creative non-fiction? No joke - the most popular content on the site.