New York concern shuts Mass. hyperlocal news network it bought a couple years ago

By adamg on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 10:05am

Jennifer Lord Paluzzi, who helped build a chain of town news sites in the suburbs of Worcester that got sold to a sort of mini-Patch outfit headquartered in Tribeca, reports she and all the other Massachusetts employees - seven reporters and three salespeople - were laid off yesterday. The sites are still up, but there's nobody left to update them.

Neighborhoods:

Boston

Ad:

Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Comments

Any idea why they closed their Massachusetts operation?

By Ron Newman on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 11:11am.

The blog you linked to doesn't even speculate about this. I'd love to hear the official story.

They claimed Mass. sites were dragging them down

By adamg on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 11:42am.

MetroWest Daily News report.

Hyperlocal ain't easy

By mediaseth on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 1:02pm.

Sorry to hear this news. I don't even know how Patch is going to sustain itself.

This is why I only do hyperlocal as a (very) part time concern. I pay for hosting and sometimes have a few bucks to spare, with a staff of one.

" Deborah Gauthier, a former

By NotWhitey on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 7:55pm.

" Deborah Gauthier, a former reporter for The Daily Northbridge and former MetroWest Daily News copy editor, Monday said the closing will hit readers the hardest.

"I think local news builds community and we’re failing our readers by not providing it," she said."

Seems as if those 'readers' disagree.