Acknowledgements

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

The McCormick Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

The Tow Foundation

Carnegie Corporation

Aspen Institute FOCAS
Charles M. Firestone

Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Benjamin R. Shute & Naomi Jackson

Mignon-Media
Jean-Francois (Jeff) Mignon & Nancy Wang

Borrell Associates Inc.
Gordon Borrell & Larry Shaw, Jr.

The New York Times (The Local)
Tim Griggs & Jim Schachter

Patch
Warren Webster & Jon Brod

Prism
Merrill Brown, Greg Swanson & Arnon Mishkin

GrowthSpur
Mark Potts

The Star-Ledger (NJ)
Jim Willse

InJersey
Ted Mann

SeeClickFix
Ben Berkowitz

Outside.in
Mark Josephson & Steven Berlin Johnson

Prezi
Zoltan Radnai

Duke Sanford School of Public Policy
Jay Hamilton

Telegraph.co.uk
Edward Rousell

New Haven Independent
Paul Bass

Chi-Town Daily News
Geoff Dougherty

MinnPost
Joel Kramer

Baristanet.com
Debra Gallant

San Diego News Network
Neil Senturia & Barbara Bry

Sun Valley Online
David Chase

Pegasus News
Mike Orren

Voice of San Diego
Andrew Donohue

DavidsonNews.net
David Boraks

CityBizList
Jay Rickey

Texas Watchdog
Trent Seibert

West Seattle Blog
Tracy Record

Gothamist
Jake Dobkin

The Alternative Press
Michael Shapiro

MGoBlog
Brian Cook

Brooklyn Based
Annaliese Griffin

The Arizona Guardian
Bob Grossfeld & Patti Epler

Special Thanks
To all the independent journalists, website publishers, entrepreneurs and others who participated in the survey of hyperlocal websites and who generously assisted in our research.