Hometown Focus to start weekly newspaper

There are two community journalism Internet presences on the Iron Range. (Compare that to your blue collar network of small towns). One is KAXE’s nonprofit Community Journalism Project (for which I am a paid blog instructor) and the other is the commercial Hometown Focus, which is run by folks I used to work with. Both have their unique strengths and weaknesses.

Well, the Duluth News-Tribune is reporting today about Hometown Focus’s plan to publish a weekly newspaper in addition to their web work. We’ll see how well this community news gathering works for the “old media.” They’ll face some pretty big challenges.

I teach online college courses in addition to what they now call “face to face” classes. When I come home each night I have papers to grade. My wife asks, “Papers or paper papers?” What a weird world we live in.

Comments

  1. Mr. Brown, this is just great! Exactly what I’m looking for, if you have been blogging for some time and you have posted on Rangenet forum, old MDN forum or new, I’m RangeBilly,

    “RangeBilly–Range’s #1 Intellectual

    RangeBilly has been challenging the “best” of the Iron Range for decades and all to the avail of no-shows, soundbytes, one post wonders and the off topic personal assasins. I challenge anyone on Range topics; be that teacher, lawyers, doctors, barfly, student or whatever you think or deem yourself. I’ve been searching and hoping at times for someone to debunk me–I cannot find that person.

    I’m guessing we already have met online, what I’m looking for is a challenge, I’m just so bored with Iron Rangers giving me the same mime lines they hear on CNN and FOX. Anyway my website, http://ironrangecuretoironrange.blogspot.com/ Iron Range Cure to Iron Range Diseases

    “7 Steps for the Iron Range to be Cured from Disease” gives 7 simple steps and all you need is to debunk one or make your own 7 steps or more and I debunk one and you can claim your the one who defeated that “evil” Patriot. Come to think of it, maybe in the past you did try?

    Can you post a hint to HomeTown Focus…. They’re not going to get many posters with the high prerequiste of info needed.

    Isn’t it sad that both the GOP and DEM parties don’t say nothing about the Marxian planks applied to this Nation, what’s your take on that Brown?

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