Who would have guessed? The New York Times launches its “Local” Web site covering five communities in Brooklyn and the New Jersey suburbs. It’s The Times‘ first big foray into citizen journalism and exploration of the Web’s “hyper-local” space.
You can read the article on Wall Street Journal’s blog.
Postscript (07/12/10): Unfortunately, the NYT experiment has not shown the success that the paper was hoping for, and has been shut down it’s New Jersey division since the blog post was first published.