Enable your local audience to become part of your news-gathering operation, perhaps even hosting citizen journalism pieces (clearly marked) that help bring hype

Enable your local audience to become part of your news-gathering operation, perhaps even hosting citizen journalism pieces (clearly marked) that help bring hyper-local news that the newspaper wouldn't carry/couldn't resource. Depends on your Metro, but take San Francisco - I rely on local blogs to tell me what is really going on in SoMa because the San Francisco Chronicle does such a poor job. I'd love to see those blogs get some distribution on SFGate.com (SF Chron's website).