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May 17, 2012: Hometown passion fueling local news, indie publishers in NJ - Block by Block
May 17, 2012: How Hyperlocals Can Burn in Their Brand - StreetFight Magazine
http://streetfightmag.com/2012/05/17/how-hyperlocals-can-burn-in-their-brand/
April 4, 2012: Kjelene Interiews CEO Samuel Burlum And Managing Editor Of The Alternative Press Jennifer Jean Miller
March 2012 Freelancer Jennifer Jean Miller on Launching a Local News Site -- Ebyline Blog
http://ebyline.biz/2012/03/freelancer-jennifer-jean-miller-on-launching-a-local-new-site/
March 2012 Can Long-Tail EBooks Give New Life to Old News? – StreetFight Magazine
http://streetfightmag.com/2012/03/08/can-long-tail-e-books-give-new-life-to-old-news/
February 2012 Hyperlocal is the New Reality - The Marketing Advantage
http://advantage-marketingblog.com/2012/02/06/hyperlocal-the-new-reality/
October 2011 Mike Shapiro, The Man Behind The Alternative Press – Yahoo Voices
June 2011 – Politifax New Jersey
Winner: Mike Shapiro
The Millburn Short/Hills Chamber of Commerce elected to its Board the founder of The Alternative Press, an all-online objective daily newspaper covering 15 New Jersey towns,. The Alternative Press is a model for local cyber journalism.
July 2011 Public Forum with Nick Acocella interviewing Mike Shapiro
- The Hall Institute for Public Policy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcubjtBStoo.
The Alternative Press: A Successful Hyperlocal in the Garden State
The story of why InJersey went out has been told in so many conflicting ways it could be called “Garden State Rashomon.”… streetfightmag.com
http://streetfightmag.com/2011/07/14
Winner: Mike Shapiro
The Millburn Short/Hills Chamber of Commerce elected to its Board the founder of The Alternative Press, an all-online objective daily newspaper covering 15 New Jersey towns. The Alternative Press is a model for local cyber journalism.
- Politifax New Jersey June 1, 2011
eMediaVitals.com 65 Broadway, Suite 601, New York, NY 10006:
http://emediavitals.com/content/profitable-hyperlocal-news-outlet
AOL's local-news venture looks for green in Morristown
- The Star-Ledger, August 17, 2010
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2010/08/aols_local-news_experiment_loo.html
Hall Institute Launches New Video, Audio Features, February 4, 2010
http://www.hallnj.org/index.php
Rutgers Magazine Interviews AP Editor Michael Shapiro, January 15, 2010
http://www.alumni.rutgers.edu/s/896/indexNoRot.aspx?sid=896
Rutgers Class Notes on AP Editor Michael Shapiro, January 15, 2010
Rutgers Article (PDF)
Panelists: Citizen Scribes Can Help Society Asbury Park Press, November 19, 2009
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091119/999999999/911190335
Talk to The Times: Editor for Digital Initiatives New York Times, November 16, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/business/media/16askthetimes.html
Specialized News Sites Could Become the Next Big Thing New Jersey Business News, November 1, 2009
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2009/11/specialized_news_sites_could_b.html
Dateline: Maplewood New Jersey Monthly, October 31, 2009
http://njmonthly.com/articles/lifestyle/dateline-maplewood.html
Local Focus Keeps News Gathering Afloat Franklin Center, September 28, 2009
http://www.franklincenterhq.org/2009/09/28/local-focus-keeps-news-gathering-afloat/
The Alternative Press New Jersey Monthly, September 22, 2009
http://njmonthly.com/blogs/njmyway/2009/9/22/the-alternative-press.html
Hyperlocal Journalism Gets Legit Minyanville.com, September 18, 2009
http://www.minyanville.com/articles/journalism-hyperlocal-newspapers-media-reporters/index/a/24554
TheAlternativePress.com Launches Financial News Section Forbes.com, August 5, 2009
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/businesswire/2009/08/05/businesswire127519955.html
10 Towns and 10,000,000 Hits Strong: All-Online Daily Hyperlocal Newspaper, TheAlternativePress.com, Expands to Chatham, New Jersey PRNewswire.com, June 1, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/lr4o4s
Interview with TheAlternativePress.com Editor Michael M. Shapiro BlogTalkRadio.com, May 7, 2009
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Hall_Institute/2009/05/26/The-Hall-Institutes-Weekly-Review-and-Analysis-of-the-New-Jersey-Governor-Race-TBA
Garden State Green Section of TheAlternativePress.com Becomes New Jersey's New Home for Environmental News and Information, EarthTimes.org, May 7, 2009
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/garden-state-green-section-of,815662.shtml
Going Loco for Local: TheAlternativePress.com, All-Online Daily Local NJ Newspaper Expands to Westfield, Surpasses 6 Million Hits, The Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/cxgle8
TheAlternativePress.com Coming to Westfield, Bruno Tedeschi, April 30, 2009
http://www.brunotedeschi.com/myblogs/jerseynew-media/83-alternative-press-coming-to-westfield
One of the best local news sites in the country...
-Tina Kelley, The New York Times, May 2, 2009
http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com