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Yeah, the economics for hyper-local is still not great. I do wonder what the minimum population that could support a newspaper is. That might make an interestin
by marcus_holmes 6y ago
Yeah, the economics for hyper-local is still not great. I do wonder what the minimum population that could support a newspaper is. That might make an interesting spreadsheet model someday.
- ghaff 6y agoPopulation is one variable. There's also some sort of concentration/community factor. e.g. there are college papers (although that works mostly because there's a lot of free labor). But I could imagine a coherent urban neighborhood working better for hyper-local than a spread-out largely residential small rural town.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI agree, but I think it's the other way around. The urban neighbourhoods I've lived in are all very much a part of the city rather than actual communities themselves. Whereas the rural village I grew up in, that was an actual community. Though not much news ("headline: Bessie the cow escapes her field again" ;)