From a distance, it looks an intriguing clash – top-down at CUNY in the East, bottom-up at Berkeley in the West…
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For obvious reasons - having done the KnightNews Challenge, having followed the progress of the winner Adrian Holovaty and his EveryBlock platform and having watched Rob Curley push the envelope with his Loudon County efforts out of the Washington Post...
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=85
... we've always kept an interested eye on the US local start-up scene.
And next out of the blocks comes 'Mission Local' - as in www.missionlocal.org - out of Berkeley's J-School; funded, helpfully, by $500,000 from the Ford Foundation.
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/program/grants/ford.html
It looks an exciting proposition.
And as the San Francisco Chronicle looks all set to be the first major US city newspaper to tumble and ...