Exploring new models of local news

I moderated a panel this week at Seattle City Hall about neighborhood news and several other promising approaches to creating sustainable local news businesses on the web. Among those on the panel: Tracy Record from WestSeattleBlog, Scott Dunham from Neighborlogs and CentralDistrictNews, and Mike Davidson from Newsvine.

I posted a quick summary here, and you can watch video of the event here. It’s interesting to note that Seattle is leading the curve nationwide on new local news models: WestSeattleBlog was the first 24/7 neighborhood news community, Seattle PI was the first major newspaper to go online only, Neighborlogs was the first neighborhood news platform and our own Next Door Media was the first neighborhood news blog network in the country.