Comments on: Click where? Journalists clamour to capture your Cardiff news

By: Journalism at the University of Glamorgan » Hyperlocal journalism: return of the start-ups

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:20:42 +0000

[...] – some of them student-based – in Cardiff and plenty of comment about them, as in this example from Joni [...]

By: How the j-school students are taking control « How to microblog in high heels

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:04:06 +0000

[...] also have the only real prevalent hyperlocal news site in Cardiff Llandaff News, run by Joni Alexander – former International Journalism student at CJS – recently snapped up by Media Wales [...]

By: Links for February 5th through February 9th | daveharte.com

Links for February 5th through February 9th | daveharte.com — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:02:46 +0000

[...] Click where? Journalists clamour to capture your Cardiff news — joni ayn – Bit of a frenzy around local reporting in Cardiff – everyone wants a bit it seems [...]

By: Hannah Waldram

Hannah Waldram — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:35:50 +0000

It is indeed a very exciting time for Cardiff. Here’s another one to add to your growing knicker collection Joni – new hyperlocal site @CityCCardiff launched on Friday… so we nearly had a complete week of new online journalism ventures launching for the city.

In your last paragraph, you hint that the incentive for starting such new projects is financial – I’m not so sure. I started Bournville Village for a number of reasons – and none of them involved making any money. It’s difficult to pin down the motivations for starting a hyperlocal or local community website and not all come from budding or ex-journalists – many are active citizens hoping to make a difference in their area or among a group of people with a common interest. It just so happens that the idea of starting a hyperlocal website also appeals to journalists who already have an invested interest in stimulating democratic engagement.

Whatever the incentive, however, the prospect of many people “quietly collaborating” across the city is something to be celebrated, and what with more sites to be unveiled, the future for Cardiff gets ever brighter.

By: Making connections: attending my first Cardiff Tweetup by edwalker.net

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:51:22 +0000

[...] It’s great to see Tweetups happening in Cardiff and here’s to many more happening, along with all the other hyperlocal/social media stuff that’s happening in Cardiff at the moment. [...]

By: Glyn

Glyn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:59:08 +0000

No worries, like you I’m very excited by how Cardiff and the hyperlocal work of people like yourself, Hannah, Ed and the Capture Cardiff massif are being brought into the the spotlight.

By: Joni Ayn Alexander

Joni Ayn Alexander — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:18:54 +0000

Ah… thanks, Glyn. Apologies for the mistake. I stand corrected.

By: Glyn

Glyn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:13:52 +0000

Joni, slight correction to what you’ve got up there. Capture Cardiff is the name of a features project in the Cardiff University Diploma online journalism module – and never has been a limited quiet print run (you are thinking of the print newspaper), rather it is hosted on each of the students’ own blogs/personal sites encouraging them to get to grips with multimedia alongside their online writing.

Besides, there are in public websites such as alt.cardiff and the magazine production exercises.