Southwest Observer top neighborhood site in Chicagoland
The Southwest Observer has been named Chicagoland's top neighborhood-specific Web site by the Knight Foundation and the Chicago Community Trust. The Southwest Observer covers the Chicago neighborhoods of Mount Greenwood, Beverly and Morgan Park.
Earlier this year the two organizations conducted a report of community news around the city. The results of "The New News: Journalism We Want and Need," which were released in June, found that the Southwest Observer is one of the local online news publications that is "leading the way in covering Chicago." The Sun-Times agreed, reporting that "the reinvention of the news gathering industry is being engineered...in Chicago."
Ranked 23 out of 84 total Web sites, the Southwest Observer topped nearly a dozen other neighborhood-specific Web sites such as the Chicago News Bench (Rogers Park), the Sixth Ward (Chatham) and the Hyde Park Progress.
Launched in March 2007, the Southwest Observer is also more established than popular news aggregators Everyblock and OutsideIn, which ranked 24 and 30, respectively.
Although blogs and news aggregators dominate the Chicago online news scene, the Southwest Observer is at the forefront of the next generation of community journalism, using more Web 2.0 tools--including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps, polls and photo-sharing--than any other Web site on the list.
"Our business model is simple," said Editor and Co-Founder Michael Fielding, a professional journalist who offers original reporting and news aggregation coupled with user-generated content such as forum discussions, blogs and videos. "It's a very fluid process that really encourages the many-to-many approach of news gathering and dissemination. We refuse to be pigeonholed as an online newspaper or a blog."
Fielding and Publisher/Co-Founder Steve Delmont said the recognition came at an opportune time: In October they launched a major overhaul of the site, which now has enhanced news capabilities such as increased live streaming coverage of neighborhood events, a robust business directory and a detailed, user-friendly crime map. It also offers users new ways to connect with their neighbors by posting their own photos, chatting in real time with friends, using their computer's microphone to leave voice messages on the home page and signing neighborhood petitions that highlight hot-button local issues.
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Founded to share unbiased, informative neighborhood content, the Southwest Observer turns to neighbors, local organizations and businesses to maintain the "community" in community journalism--and to participate around ideas online in order to make those ideas reality offline.
It has become the Web's most dependable source of hyperlocal news for the Southwest Side of Chicago--from live coverage of breaking news to streaming video of entertainment and sporting events as well as multimedia profiles of noteworthy neighbors.
As a result, the site has been recognized by the Chicago Tribune and the ChicagoNow blog.
Fielding has been a guest on popular television talk show Garrard McClendon Live, and his photographs of the neighborhood have been used by the Chicago Office of Tourism.
The Southwest Observer is guided by a simple mission: to use the Internet to reenergize the community with solutions to local concerns. "It's about neighbors connecting with neighbors and adding their own voice to the larger context," Fielding said. "And by doing that, we're offering connections--not just news. In the end, we are our neighborhoods."
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