What´s the difference between a big news organization and a local news one?
Public of interest. Many times both will share some of the same content, but a local newspaper will swim inside ordinary people´s lives and common interests in the community. It is going to tell you about Toto, the dog who helps children to cross the street. It is going to tell you about how this girl fought cancer. It is going to tell you why people´s lives matter and why should we pay attention to local enterprises and opportunities. The Gainesville Sun is a local news organization that focus on the community and its surroundings. It covers crimes, education, health, politics, etc. Recently they have been covering the elections in Alachua County, and even though I thought they did a great job writing stories and trying to cover every point of view of it, I did not find more valuable information other than the elections in the city area. “What makes local local?” Asked journalist Don Fry in a story for the Poynter. Local news sometimes means more than just the community, as WUFT News proved by combining audio and sometimes videos in its stories. This particularly news organization has its focus on the North Central Florida area, and by covering at a regional level, its content diverges from hard to soft news all the time. Something that I find very valuable are their special reports. The Energy Burden project published by UF students on December last year is a great example of good storytelling mixed with audio and video content created to explore the high GRU prices in the city of Gainesville after Hurricane Irma and its affect in poor areas. There´s always a hyper local news organization that focus on the neighborhoods and people who lives in your community. The Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service can be a good example of a hyper news organization, because it brings interesting content about daily life events. The three organizations are transparent with its readers in all publications, raising my trust on their reporters.
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AuthorGiovanna Kubota is a 22-year-old Brazilian pursuing a master's degree in Communication at the University of Central Florida. |