{"id":37974,"date":"2013-08-22T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37974"},"modified":"2013-08-21T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:05:08","slug":"patched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37974","title":{"rendered":"Patched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half of the Minnesota &#8220;Patch&#8221; &#8220;hyperlocal news&#8221; sites are going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/business\/ci_23908866\/some-minnesota-patch-news-websites-face-closure\">closing or consolidating <\/a>in the next few months:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kevira Voegele, associate regional editor for Minnesota, emailed staffers over the weekend to inform them that 13 of the state&#8217;s 25 Patches would need to land a partner &#8212; a media organization that would assume some responsibility for their operations &#8212; or face closure within 60 days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loscerritosnews.net\/2013\/08\/11\/wsj-report-patch-is-on-brink-of-closure\/\">nationwide problem <\/a>for AOL-owned Patch, which is closing or consolidating 300 of its 900 local websites coast to coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Minnesota, the Patches slated for closure or consolidation failing a partnership are Apple Valley-Rosemount, Burnsville, Eden Prairie, Fridley, Golden Valley, Hopkins, Inver Grove Heights, Lake Minnetonka, Mendota Heights, Plymouth, Roseville, Shakopee and Southwest Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Sites that will continue to operate as usual include Eagan, Edina, Lakeville, Maple Grove, Minnetonka, Northfield, Oakdale, Richfield, Stillwater, St. Louis Park, St. Michael and Woodbury.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In my experience, the Patch chain &#8211; at least in Minnesota &#8211; was just as sclerotic and left-biased as of the local newspapers that they couldn&#8217;t quite replace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half of the Minnesota &#8220;Patch&#8221; &#8220;hyperlocal news&#8221; sites are going to be closing or consolidating in the next few months: Kevira Voegele, associate regional editor for Minnesota, emailed staffers over the weekend to inform them that 13 of the state&#8217;s 25 Patches would need to land a partner &#8212; a media organization that would assume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37975,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37974\/revisions\/37975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}