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What's this site about? Focussing mostly on free sources with a UK bias, this site is aimed at journalists of the student, 'citizen' and professional varieties. In these pages I will outline a few tips, tricks and sources for unearthing the following: * Contributors * Case-studies * Backgrounders/analysis * Statistics * Actuality/archives, and * Any other thing I can think of

Study from 2007 on 'hyperlocal journalism' - more from the perspective of web-editor, but with some useful information. "The rule in hyperlocal citizen journalism is that no one size or shape fits all. This study, funded by the Ford Foundation, sought to take a snapshot in time of a robust phenomenon - specifically, the development of hyperlocal community news sites - that is changing and growing week by week."