COMMENTARY: Value for signal debate highlights coming wave of multi-platform, hyper-local journalism

I BELIEVE IN LOCAL NEWS. I have been producing it all my career.From my student paper, to the community weekly newspapers I’ve worked at, to the various trade magazines and web sites which have employed me, they have all been, in a way, strictly local news.Friends and acquaintances sometimes think of me as a new media guru of sorts, that because I run a news service which is distributed online only, I know something they don’t. The truth is I’m not doing anything now I wasn’t doing back in 1989 when I was a sports writer for the Ontarion, covering...