NY Times terminates hyperlocal test

The New York Times is pulling out of its online hyperlocal news initiative, The Local , after 18 months. It signed off on Wednesday with an announcement on the two sites that cover communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey to say it was "passing the baton" to Baristanet.com , which calls itself "a leader in both hyperlocal blogging and the online citizen journalism movement." The Times explains that it saw the hyperlocal sites "as a pilot, a test, an experiment". Source: News&Tech