{"id":16576,"date":"2012-01-13T22:05:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T05:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wapreview.com\/?p=16576"},"modified":"2012-01-13T22:11:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T05:11:26","slug":"oakland-local-award-winning-grassroots-hyper-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/16576\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Local &#8211; Award Winning Grassroots Hyper-local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/16576\/oaklandlocal\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16579\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16579 alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray;\" title=\"Oakland Local\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/OaklandLocal-240x426.png\" alt=\"Oakland Local\" width=\"240\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With local newspapers seemingly unable to make the switch to an online world and dying off like flies, the concept of the &#8220;hyper-local&#8221; news site has taken off. The genre has a attracted the attention of big media with AOL pouring millions of dollars into building a network of thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/8606\/\">Patch.com<\/a> hyper-local sites and MSNBC acquiring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everyblock.com\/\">everyblock.com<\/a>, a smaller (16 sites) hyper-local network.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2010, Oakland Local (OL) is different. Published\u00a0 by a community based, non-profit organization, it&#8217;s an online news source for Oakland California, residents. Updated around the clock by an all-volunteer staff of eight, OL is credited with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_news_frontier\/oakland_local_covers_occupy_oa.php\">breaking the story<\/a> of Iraq War veteran, Scott Olsen being critically injured by a police projectile during the repression of the Occupy Oakland demonstations.<\/p>\n<p>OL carries no advertising and has an annual budget of under $60,00 which comes from contributions and grants.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland Local has won several awards including a Society of Professional Journalists&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/m.oaklandlocal.com\/node\/14153\">Prize<\/a> for for multimedia cultural coverage and is included in the Columbia Journalism Review&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_news_frontier_database\/2011\/01\/oakland-local.php\">News Frontier Database <\/a>of the top online news sources. It also provides training and support for local non-profit and community groups staff and members who want to learn journalism and online publishing and social media skills.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted at WordPress.com, Oakland Local is mobile friendly.<\/p>\n<p><em>Filed in:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/?id=700\">Wap Review Directory &#8211; News\/US Local by State\/Alabama &#8211; California<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Ratings:<\/em> <span class=\"small\">Content <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/blue-starOL.gif\" alt=\"_\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/> Usability <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-starOL.gif\" alt=\"_\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Mobile Link:<\/em> <a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/m.oaklandlocal.com\/\"> m.oaklandlocal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With local newspapers seemingly unable to make the switch to an online world and dying off like flies, the concept of the &#8220;hyper-local&#8221; news site has taken off. The genre has a attracted the attention of big media with AOL pouring millions of dollars into building a network of thousands of Patch.com hyper-local sites and MSNBC acquiring everyblock.com, a smaller (16 sites) hyper-local network. Founded in 2010, Oakland Local (OL) is different. Published\u00a0 by a community based, non-profit organization, it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/16576\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[1136,1319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16576"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16584,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576\/revisions\/16584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}