Heavy-hitters in Hawaii
EBay founder Pierre Omidyar is putting the pieces together for his startup news operation in Hawaii called Peer News, according to a post on his blog. (spotted by PaidContent). The latest piece is hiring John Temple as editor. Temple most recently was editor and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News .
I find it fascinating that an entrepreneur who redefined “private party” advertising – a category that newspapers owned and gave up, way before the Web — is looking to build a sustainable local news model.
Is it possible to reconnect the torn tissues that once connected local news and personal commerce? These things have become so silo’ed in our lives, I wonder.
But it’s very cool that someone with Omidyar’s resources and smarts is giving it a shot. Regardless of what this team tries, or how it turns out, the lessons will be powerful.
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