100 Patches Down, Hundreds More On The Way
by Matt on Aug 17, 2010 in Industry
AOL launched its 100th Patch hyperlocal news site today — this one in Morristown, New Jersey. And if all goes according to plan, there’ll be about 500 Patches across the U.S. by the end of the year. (It’s tempting to insert a joke here about fungus-like growth, but I have no direct experience with Patch so that wouldn’t be fair.)
Some other news and stats from today’s announcement:
- Patch plans to be in 20 U.S. states (500 neighborhoods) by the end of 2010.
- Patch plans to hire more than 500 journalists.
- Patch has hired four regional Editorial Directors, one each to oversee Patch’s Northeast, South, Midwest, and West Coast reporting.
- Patch also has 52 Regional Editors across its current network in 13 states.
Patch currently has hyperlocal sites in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Virginia. Future expansion is planned in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin.
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Patch just opened shop in my town of 50,000 people. We already have two local papers (one of which is launch a site later this month that is similar to the Patch format) and a local news site run by the Tribune. It will be interesting to see it there’s enough local news to go around. Things are about to get very interesting.
Keep us posted on how they do in your neck of the woods, Becca. Very curious to hear your thoughts. And wondering when they’re gonna come to my hometown, too.
Will do. I’m also curious to see if it has any impact on my site. My guess is probably not because we’re under the radar, but we shall see.