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Across Britain and
around the world,

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the internet is allowing new
forms of community journalism

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and hyperlocal
websites to flourish.

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Often, these new
services are in areas

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where traditional
newspapers no longer exist.

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It's an exciting new area
of media development.

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I'm Richard Sambrook,
Professor of Journalism

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here at Cardiff
University, where

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we have a Centre for
Community Journalism which

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studies and supports
these new services.

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This course is going to look at
why these services are growing

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up, what makes them
successful, and how

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you can launch one of your own.

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Well, when the local
paper goes, the danger

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is that the spirit of
the community will go.

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You can't do everything
by word of mouth,

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even in a medium size
community, in a small town,

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or a small part of the city.

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You need a quality
of information,

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you need to know
how to get it, you

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need to be able
to get it quickly.

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Actually, hyperlocal
sites are often

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speedier updating than
newspapers were ever

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able to do.

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People more than ever want
to know what's going on close

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to them in their neighbourhoods,
in their communities,

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and they're saying repeatedly
that this is the thing

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the media don't
provide for them.

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So the Brixton Bugle
comes out monthly

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on the last Friday of the month,
and we print 10,000 copies.

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And the paper's normally
around 24, 28 pages,

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depending on advertising.

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The reason why we chose Britain
as the patch for the blog

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and the Bugle is because by
saying I live in the centre

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of Brixton, love it, and
feel passionate about it,

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and felt that it needed to be
better represented in the media

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and the people that lived here
deserved a better provision

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of news than they were getting.

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I have absolutely no
idea where all of this

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will be in 10 or 20 years' time.

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It's a field of massive
experiment, creativity,

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and innovation,
but I'm certain it

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will be one of the most exciting
results of the internet age.

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It will be a revival
of hyperlocal media

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and hyperlocal activism.

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This course will show
you successful examples

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of community journalism,
explain the theory

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behind this new sector,
expand the skills

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you need to launch
your own site,

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and introduce you to
a network of people

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who can help support
you in the future.

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