For 500 years, those who could afford a printing press had access to influence and power.
Pulitzer, Hearst, Chandler and others bought newspapers to influence local and national politics while choosing all the news that was fit to print and charging readers to see the information. Newspapers in general don’t want a conversation with readers and they definitely don’t want reader content or their input. They are the editors and the gatekeepers of “news.”
Citilista uses a different model because now every citizen has access to a printing press in the form of the internet. Newspapers and TV are no longer the gatekeepers of the news, there to feed us what they choose.
Citilista uses crowdsourced stories to build a community newspaper that serves the local community.
There are millions of people who care enough about a topic to write about it for free in the form of a blog. Some began as experts on the topic or learned more than most through their diligence.
Many of these selfless fonts of knowledge put their knowledge on the web for anybody to find. But when there are millions of blogs, how does your niche audience find you?
Citilista compiles these niche topics in one website centered around a geographic location. Then Citilista finds the audience that is already out there. Citilista nurture an online community using old-fashioned, grass roots outreach, industry-leading public relations and state-of-the-art search engine optimization.