The Tab Raises $3M for Hyperlocal News Site Written by Student Journalists

I checked it out. The concept really makes sense, local news is ripe for disruption.

It's basically "your local buzzfeed"

Perhaps, but it's really really hard to make money from news. Second, the hyperlocal approach has been tried repeatedly flamed out.

I mean you don't have to take over a street of a suburb, but regional new sources are all 20+ years old.

In Seattle for example its all the same players in print as its always been.

Wonder if it's too late for Patch to pivot... "hyperlocal news" was their bailiwick, I thought.

I think the success of this will come down to content curation. This type of platform could end up on any end of the spectrum between buzzfeed and yik-yak. Does anyone know how the editor and article submission rules work for this site?

Does it make sense to invest into something ad-based in the age of adblockers?

Not criticizing, I just want to launch an ad-based website project too