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Oakland Local has become an independent news resource for what’s happening in education, city government, food, innovative tech, arts and culture, youth and more in Oakland, Calif. It is a project of the nonprofit Center for Media Change. OL’s content is produced by staff and citizen contributers and distributed across the web via Yahoo! News, KQED, SF Gate, New America Media, The Media Consortium and other partners.
Project Updates
- News Cafes Bring Local Engagement for Oakland Local ” - Oakland Local has launched a series of community issue-oriented breakfasts at cafes around that Bay-Area city, discussing events they have covered – and they’re selling out. This post originally appeared on the Investigative News Network website on March 16, 2012.
- News Cafes Bring Local Engagement for Oakland Local ” - (This post originally appeared on the Investigative News Network website on March 16, 2012) Contributed by Susan Mernit. Oakland Local has launched a series of community issue-oriented breakfasts at cafes around that Bay-Area city, discussing events we have covered – and they’re selling out. Inspired by Beacon & Eggs, the St. Louis Beacon’s long-running monthly […]
- Oakland Local Honored with Innovators Award ” - It was announced March 28 that the news site will receive a 2011 Oakland Innovators Award from Oaklandish for pioneering work in the community.
- One Year In and Ahead of Schedule ” - 2009 New Voices grantee Oakland Local recently released a report on the progress made since receiving funding one year ago. In the seven months since their launch, Oakland Local has produced more than 3,000 stories, blog posts and photo galleries from 52 contributors.
- One Year In and Ahead of Schedule ” - It’s been a wild year for Susan Mernit and her startup news site, Oakland Local. She has taken the promise of a $25,000 two-year grant from the New Voices program and created a viable news site covering the underserved city across the San Francisco Bay. She has also leveraged that to raise an additional $102,700 […]
- Oakland Local Chugging Along ” - In the months since its launch, Oakland Local has been growing its audience exponentially. By the end of September, just prior to launch, the site’s staff was putting on the finishing touches and beginning to load content. Three months later, in December 2009, Oakland Local had 27,320 unique visits and 45,000 page views. By the […]
- Building strong partnerships with local organizations ” - Oakland Local went live in mid-October after months of planning by editor Susan Mernit and her editorial team. Mernit says during this early start-up stage, Oakland Live will be publishing 3 new stories a week, plus blog posts and community content. The site will update a minimum of two times a day Monday to Friday, […]
