Baristanet è un blog “locale” di una cittadina del New Jersey, realizzato da una giornalista che ha lavorato alcuni anni per le pagine locali del NYT e poi si è lanciata in questa operazione: con un discreto successo e alcuni imitatori.
Debbie Galant ha addirittura collaboratori specializzati. La copertura va dall’intrattenimento alla politica (chatta con il candidato!), ai servizi; buona la partecipazione/segnalazione da parte dei lettori. Qui un’intervista di Online Journalism Review.
After her five-year stint as a columnist in New York Times’ New Jersey section ended, Debbie Galant began to follow her father’s footsteps into the world of running a small publication. While her father was a publisher of newsletters, Galant assumed his modern day incarnation–as a blogger. At first, she blogged personally but after attending a meeting about hyperlocal blogging, she says, “the idea just clicked that here is a pretty cool opportunity.”
Along with a business partner, she launched Barista of Bloomfield Ave., a site that covers a small town in New Jersey. “I had name recognition and publisher blood,” she says. “I thought it might be better than being a freelancer—always subject to the whims of other people.”
