There's a community news section that functions as a virtual soapbox on topics as diverse as personal finance and race.
The sites often do a better job at covering community news than large newspapers did, even before the papers started to collapse, she said.
Jane McDonnell, executive director of the Online News Association, said the hyperlocal movement places emphasis on community news that's written by volunteers who usually are entrenched in their neighborhoods.
Following the death, MIT president L Rafael Reif praised the "brilliant creativity and idealism" of Mr Swartz, who had been an early developer of Reddit, a community news website.
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Since 2004, when trouble in the news industry started to show, at least 800 community news Web sites have popped up, according to Jan Schaffer, executive director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism.
While Ms. Shaker, a community-relations manager for Patch, a network of community-news websites owned by AOL Inc.
So somebody is saying something to someone, just not officially to the investment community as news of a deal appears to be leaking all over town.
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When the community around the news becomes part of the process, potential impact increases.
Others uploaded photos to iReport, CNN's global participatory news community.
"We are a very close-knit community and when news of the shooting spread through our town, everyone wanted to help, " said Mary Lankford, who taught Chapa at Sinton High School.
The assault on CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan in Egypt stunned the news community, but it also drew attention to a growing problem: the world is becoming a far more dangerous place for reporters.
Husky Chat made a small splash in the Hacker News community on Monday after releasing a new feature called Lobby, which provides a place where everyone on Husky Chat can talk to one another, no matter where they are on the Internet.
"Because it wasn't just a shop and a post office, it was also a community centre where people met, where they discussed various news concerning the community, where they were concerned about their neighbours, " he said.
The efforts of Kingsmead Community School's practice News Day could be heard on 10Radio, the new community radio station for the villages of the Ten Parishes of Somerset.
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"The whole community is absolutely devastated by this news but Alltwen is a close-knit community and everyone is pulling together to provide support for the family, " he added.
So far, it has really been the big news events that have brought people together to share and compile news online - on these occasions, it's perhaps the ability to form a community as much as the news content that brings people together.
For the medical community, the Crestor news is a big deal for two reasons.
TVGuide.com is a one-stop entertainment destination for online television, news, community and TV listings.
Local politicians said the community was shocked at news of the closure which was "a tragedy for those people losing their jobs".
Members increasingly use their Facebook logins everywhere online: to listen to music on Spotify, to log in and post comments on other news or community sites, to share content they like.
Chrystie, director of communications at the Office of Housing and Community Development told the Daily News.
But this souring of relations between Kosovo's protectors and parts of the ethnic-Albanian community is not all bad news.
But the business community has reacted unfavourably to news of a VAT rise from 17.5% to 20% from 4 January 2010.
In both Canadian cases, the sites are maintained by individuals who rely on contributions from the community for much of their news content.
And the Apple-watching community is so starved of real news that it bought into iWatch instantaneously.
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They are due to start operating by October, and will include city news, sports and community participation.
"The news in the local community is that this was not paramilitary-related but a local dispute, " he said.
Backers will have access to the toolkit used to make the title, which is good news for the modding community.
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Mr Hussain said more than 1, 000 people attended Birchills Mosque and community centre on Thursday night after news of Mr Abass's death.
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