Hyperlocal? Hyperglobal?
October 10, 2008 
What is the difference between hyperlocal news and hyperglobal news?
Isn’t hyperlocal news meaningful any more?
I found an interesting article about hyperlocal news and hyperglobal news on The Future of News. http://thefutureofnews.com/2008/09/18/news-going-hyperlocal-or-hyperglobal/ The author, Steve Boriss, talks about the crisis of hyperlocal news future. He considers that hyperlocal stories are necessary for directly affecting out lives, but global stories are now seen as directly affecting our lives. It’s not good for hyperlocal news.
However, I think hyperlocal news is still needed in local area because the news sometimes includes critical information that people need in their daily lives, such as traffic information and events in areas. Now, there are many choices to provide local news because of the age of multimedia. I think online source is especially effective.
Hyperlocal news source, outside.in, gathers content from local news outlets and bloggers.
According to Journalism.co.uk, outside.in was launched in the US in November 2006 and reportedly has an audience of nearly half a million educated, mostly female users, nearly 40% of which are between 18 and 34 years.
I also found the related article to this concern. The article, Local and hyperlocal news: the good and bad is on outside. in. In this article, the media analyst, Rick Edmonds, in Poynter Institute concerns about hyperlocal contents. This is because the news is sometimes news, but often pet pictures or baseball game results.
To survive hyperlocal news, the content of the news should be more sophisticated and meaningful for their lives. I think that the most important thing is hyperlocal news should differentiate it from global stories; for instance, to include local people’s opinions about local events.
The reason in which hyper-local news remains and will always be essential in the lives of consumers is because it offers knowledge about events and news that directly affects a consumer. Often times, it allows consumers an opportunity to know how they can get involved and what precedence, if any, was set by most current events. If a young mom and daughter are killed by a driver with four DUI incidents, the immediate public wants to know that they’ll be protected by more stern laws. The public also wants to know what they can do to hold lawmakers accountable to amend existing policies. Hyper-global news offers precedence as it relates at a national level but also stimulates community organizing at local levels. Hyper-global news enhances hyper-local news coverage to insinuate greater prominence and action, locally. Hence; the public takes their concern from city hall to congress!