Local News Websites Proliferate, Expand
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.”
This article was originally posted on netnewscheck.com
Websites are so 2005. Really. No one much surfs the web on a computer page anymore! It’s all about apps and social media. Making your web page “mobile-friendly” ignores the fact that pages are inferior to a good standalone app. The World Wide Web is ancient. Like broadcast stations.
I have yet to see an app that outperforms a good mobile website when both are provided. For example, look at any discussion forum. You either have to go through the awful Tapatalk application, or use a custom app, which is either a repackaging of Tapatalk or a similar app, or just points to the web page with a branded browser wrap-around. Maybe there are “good standalone apps” out there which replace webpages, but I have yet to stumble upon them.
I spend so much time going through the TVSpy, TVNewser, and TVNewsCheck web sites, that I don’t have time to look at the websites of my local TV Stations!