Journalism students in the Midlands have set up a new hyperlocal website focussing on news from around central Birmingham.

The MA online journalism students, from Birmingham City University, have launched Hashbrum.co.uk which combines a map of the Second City with a slideshow of multimedia material to show its news.

Editor Andrew Brightwell said: “I’d say we have a number of aims for Hashbrum.

“I think we see it as a way to learn about how online news can engage and be informed by its audience.

“So we’re interested in experimenting in ways of finding, creating and presenting news. We’ve tried to have some fun with the way that we’ve covered stories.

“I can’t say exactly how it will develop, but I hope it evolves a life of its own, in a sense.

“By this I mean that it’d be really successful if we feel that much of the news we’re creating is being led and developed by the site’s audience.”

Comments

Gary (13/11/2009 18:22:53)
Would be nice to see something put together which is actually really interesting. Just another example of how terrible the local news is put across. View this once, and you see how badly it’s content is…you’ll never want to return to it again and again.