Bklyner

Bklyner[1] (pronounced "Brooklyner", often stylized in all-caps) is a hyper-local news site from the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.[2]

Bklyner
Type of site
News website
Available inEnglish
Founded2017
Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York
,
United States
URLbklyner.com

It has been described as "telling the stories considered too small for the major newspapers to bother with." Exclusives such as a 27,000 gallon oil spill "that the authorities had not made public"[3] led to legal changes.[4]

Major New York City newspapers[5] such the New York Daily News and the New York Post cite their information as a source.[6][7]

History

The site began in 2017 when several hyper-local sites merged into one.[2] The publication mostly publishes material online, but has also published printed newspapers.[2]

A neighborhood news website named Ditmas Park Corner,[8] after five years on its own, was folded into Bklyner.[9] Prior to merging into Bklyner, Ditmas Park Corner funded paying a reporter to walk around the neighborhood.[8][10]

On 26 August 2021, editor Liena Zagare announced that Bklyner would cease publication on 10 September 2021 after over 50000 articles, citing financial sustainability issues and a burnout caused in particular by the two years prior.[11]

Funding

Bklyner, although it carries ads, in 2017 "cut its staff from six full-time reporters to two-and-a-half, primarily because ad revenue had fallen"[1] and also sought "paying subscribers, even though the site remains free." As of early 2020, ads and subscribers was still the support model for free access.[12]

References
  1. Andy Newman (November 5, 2017). "News Sites With Local Ambitions Hope to Fill Digital Void". The New York Times.
  2. "Scrappy Brooklyn news site ventures into print". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  3. NYTimes gave as an example "Breaking: a 27,000-gallon oil spill toward Gravesend Bay". BKLYNER. (NYTimes) that the authorities had not made public
  4. "NYTimes: to introduce a bill requiring agencies to immediately notify local officials of pollution hazards.
  5. "Brooklyn luxury tower's rooftop pool will be highest in the city". New York Post. February 4, 2018.
  6. "Brooklyn Councilman Kalman Yeger kicked off immigration committee". New York Daily News. April 1, 2019.
  7. "Why NYC feels so much less safe, even when major crime is still down". New York Post. December 1, 2019.
  8. founded 2007, sold 2011 to Corner Media: Vivian Yee (July 16, 2014). "Corner Media Expands Its Network of Brooklyn Blogs". The New York Times.
  9. Ditmas Park Corner was standalone 2012 thru 2017, then "incorporated into" "Ditmas Park Corner Joins BKLYNER - BKLYNER". BKLYNER. December 28, 2016.
  10. NYT: starting salary $30,000
  11. Liena Zagare (August 26, 2021). "Bklyner's Last Day: Sept. 10". Bklyner.
  12. The author is BKLYNER's founder's husband: Ben Smith (March 29, 2020). "Bail Out Journalists. Let Newspaper Chains Die". The New York Times.
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