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A robust online weekly news site co-founded by former PTA officers to cover town and school news for the Chappaqua area in Westchester County, N.Y., which had lost its local newspaper.
2007 grantees Christine Yeres, Susie Pender and Ann Marie Fallon talk about building a reputation for their site. They serve as publisher and managing editor, respectively. This interview took place April 5, 2008 at the New Voices 2007 Grantee Meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn in Washington, D.C.
Project Updates
- Bringing Home the Bacon (August, 2008) - NewCastleNOW.org is a site rich in content and advertising, with more than 15 local businesses investing in homepage ads, an impressive achievement for a one-year-old hyperlocal website. That might translate into about $40,000 in income in their first year of operation, but the editors admit they are just too busy to count. Who’s responsible for […]
- 57 Contributors and Counting … (March, 2008) - The three musketeers of NewCastleNow.org — Christine Yeres, Anne Marie Fallon and Susie Pender — can hardly believe the pace they’ve had to keep to put out their weekly hyperlocal edition. “It’s tons of work from Tuesday night through Thursday night into Friday morning around 4 a.m.,” says Yeres, “But then we’re free to live our […]
- What do we want? New Castle News! When? Now! (November, 2007) - The NOW in NewCastleNOW stands for News & Opinion Weekly, an online newspaper that’s bursting with local content. The site actually got launched over the summer thanks to a news nudge from the New York Times. Managing Editor Christine Yeres tells the story: “We had advance warning that our web address would be mentioned in […]
