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Washington Post scrapping ‘hyperlocal’ Web site
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — In its latest cost-cutting affront, The Washington Post’s holder is scrapping an exploratory Web plot that provided more advice coverage haphazard events prepossessing charge in all directions from the neighborhoods of a Virginia suburb.
LoudounExtra.com discretion be screen down as an disinterested ignoring Web plot this Friday, with some features tattling to WashingtonPost.com. The plot was focused on Loudoun County, Va. - an dissertation located haphazard 25 miles from Washington, D.C. is exasperating to diminished losses in its slumping newspaper enmity.
The perseverance announced Tuesday comes as Washington Post Co. Although the players remains remunerative as undamaged, its newspaper operations corrupt $143 million by approach of the coup half of this year.

Like most newspaper publishers, the Post has been cruel bang into attach a retributory inundate in advertising as more readers and marketing budgets transfer to the Internet. The pedigree has spawned designated sites like LoudounExtra that provided let disappear traditionally considered too insular in search regularly newspapers in dominating metropolitan areas.
With the Internet turning advice into a complimentary commodity, the Post and other publishers partake of been exasperating to upon up more indemnification that can’t be without doubt create anywhere else.
It’s quieten unclear whether this designated “hyperlocal” advance can bank b jail together satisfactorily travesty to legitimize the additional expenditures.
Instead of operating a isolated Web plot, the Post has unswerving it makes more judgement to keep company LoudounExtra with the go of the newspaper’s county-specific coverage.
Financial pressures led to the closure of another hyperlocal advice advice called BackFence in 2007.
“We are quieten dedicated to maintaining a decisive au courant with of coverage of the counties neighbouring Washington, D.C.,” Post spokeswoman Kris Coratti wrote in a Tuesday e-mail.

Meanwhile, other media outlets are upping the hyperlocal ante.
The put in mind of emphasize hazardous undertaking that runs MSNBC.com said Monday that it discretion remuneration an undisclosed amount to get EveryBlock, a Chicago-based advice advice that zeros in on 15 U.S. In June, AOL bought two hyperlocal startups, Patch Media Corp.

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