WOTY candidate: hyperlocal (news)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

CNN reports, "Future of online news may be 'hyperlocal'":

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/01/future.online.news.hyperlocal/index.html

Michael Quinion talked about "hyperlocal" in Feb. '07, mentioning that
the relevant sense has been around since the late '80s:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-hyp3.htm

But it's fair to say the term is rising to new levels of prominence
this year given the woes of the newspaper industry.


--Ben Zimmer

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