Tips For Covering A Local Beat

An effective Patch local editor is personable, knows the issues and personalities in town, accurately reports information, and is out in their town(s) to meet people/observe events.

Patch's bread and butter is hyperlocal news. That is the news that matters most to our users. How do you develop key topics of interest to a community? How do you build sources? What tools will help you keep tabs on developments in town?

Learn from Elizabeth Janney, who helped start Patch in 2010, about the essentials of community news reporting.

Hosts: Deb Belt, regional manager, Elizabeth Janney, deputy regional manager and former local editor — and Liz's dog! (woof, woof)

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