I'd love for this to be true, but I suspect that it's not (based mostly on the fact that we don't see any of it - "there COULDN'T be a $20 bill on the sidewalk"). Concur that it has to be min 2 person firm - 1 to be the dogged reporter, 1 to bizdev. Might work well via Patreon?https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1158464091846873088 …
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I wouldn't do it on Patreon. You want to own your customer relationship, for one, and also it doesn't have the right vibe of professionalism and independence
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Small town newspapers are often one or two person things. There’s not as many as of them as there used to be but it still exist. Get to about city sized and it would have to be hyper local. Now you get into the realm of specialized Facebook pages and websites, which exist.
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I'm not talking about small towns! I don't think they have enough Whole Foods shoppers (if you know what I mean) for this to work. yeah, in a mid-size city you could carve out a more specific niche, and that'd probably be the play
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I think you could do it in a larger city, but separated out by neighborhood. But, I’m still not exactly sure what you’re talking about. Are you talking real reporting, or are you talking community newsletter?
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Newsletter versus blog or whatever is just format. I'm talking real reporting — say, two lighter pieces a week, one bigger investigation a month. I think that's a doable workload You'd probably want to do market research and suss out demand for specific coverage areas or topics
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OK, this is where The economics of it come into play. Advertisers, especially really local like that, I’m going to be a little reticent to support this. And, this kind of reporting can be a little bit more time intensive.
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this is my big concern: breaking an interesting story might EASILY take 1,000 hours of work ...or might take 500 hours and then amount to nothing so big story drops are rare, and seem pretty small to readers for the $10/mo fee
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