Carole Osterink writes The Gossips of Rivertown, a blog that is news and commentary (and takes its name from a novel by a Hudson writer). It’s a must-read for all of us who live here. This episode tune into Carole’s story, how she chooses what to cover, if she considers herself a journalist andtr advise if you want to start a hyperlocal news sources like it in your town.
I hope you have something like it where you live. And I hope it’s written by someone like Carole.
Hyperlocal newspapers & blogs (pls send in more!):
- A Little Beacon Blog (Beacon)
- Croton History & Mysteries (Croton)
- The Daily Catch (Red Hook and Rhinebeck)
- Daily Freeman (Ulster, Green & No. Dutchess Counties)
- The Gardiner Gazette (Gardiner):
- The Gossips of Rivertown (Hudson)
- The Highlands Current (Philipstown, Cold Spring, Garrison)
- The Hudson Valley Pilot (Rhinebeck)
- Hudson Valley One (Ulster County)
- Hudson Valley Post
- IMBY (several counties)
- Kingston Wire (Kingston)
- Mid-Hudson News
- Ossining History on the Run (Ossining)
- Tgazette (Taghkanic)
Plus, Mat is recently interviewed on the Rhinebeck Scoop podcast about Cidiot.
There also are many good visitor and travel blogs to the Hudson Valley but that’s a separate list. Let me know if I should put one together.
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