Bklyner

{{Short description|Brooklyn-based local free online newspaper}} {{use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox website | name = Bklyner | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | screenshot = | screenshot_size = | screenshot_alt = | collapsible =  | collapsetext =  | background =  | caption = | company_type = | type = News website | language = English | language_count = | language_footnote = | traded_as = | foundation = {{start date and age|2017}} | dissolved = {{end date and age|2021}} | predecessor = | successor = | headquarters =  | location_city = Brooklyn, New York | location_country = United States | country_of_origin = | locations = | area_served = | owner =  | author =  | founder = | editor =  | chairman = | chairperson = | president = | CEO = | MD = | GM = | key_people = | industry = | products = | services = | revenue =  | operating_income = | international =  | net_income = | assets = | equity = | employees =  | parent = | divisions = | subsidiaries =  | url = {{URL|https://bklyner.com}} | ipv6 = | alexa =  | advertising = | commercial =  | registration =  | num_users =  | launch_date =  | current_status = | native_clients = | content_license =  | programming_language = | issn =  | eissn =  | oclc =  | footnotes = }} '''Bklyner'''<ref name=BKLYNERwhoPays.NYT2017>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/nyregion/news-sites-with-local-ambitions-hope-to-fill-digital-void.html |title=News Sites With Local Ambitions Hope to Fill Digital Void |author=Andy Newman |date=November 5, 2017}}</ref> (pronounced "Brooklyner", often stylized in all-caps) was a hyper-local news site from the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Scrappy Brooklyn news site ventures into print|url=https://www.cjr.org/local_news/scrappy-brooklyn-news-site-ventures-into-print.php|access-date=2020-07-20|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en}}</ref>

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"<ref>NYTimes gave as an example {{cite news |newspaper=BKLYNER |url=https://bklyner.com/breaking-oil-spill-dumps-27000-gallons-toward-gravesend-bay |title=Breaking: a 27,000-gallon oil spill toward Gravesend Bay |quote=(NYTimes) that the authorities had not made public}}</ref> led to legal changes.<ref>"NYTimes: to introduce a bill requiring agencies to immediately notify local officials of pollution hazards.</ref>

Major New York City newspapers<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=New York Post |url=https://nypost.com/2018/02/04/brooklyn-luxury-towers-rooftop-pool-will-be-highest-in-the-city |title=Brooklyn luxury tower's rooftop pool will be highest in the city |date=February 4, 2018}}</ref> such ''the New York Daily News'' and the ''New York Post'' cite their information as a source.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=New York Daily News |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-councilman-kalman-yeger-kicked-off-committee-palestine-tweet-20190401-s2z2uhpvgff2voyuibsayzo3ae-story.html |title=Brooklyn Councilman Kalman Yeger kicked off immigration committee |date=April 1, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=New York Post |url=https://nypost.com/2019/12/01/why-nyc-feels-so-much-less-safe-even-when-major-crime-is-still-down |title=Why NYC feels so much less safe, even when major crime is still down |date=December 1, 2019}}</ref>

==History== The site began in 2017 when several hyper-local sites merged into one.<ref name=":0" /> The publication mostly publishes material online, but has also published printed newspapers.<ref name=":0" />

A neighborhood news website named ''Ditmas Park Corner'',<ref name="BKLYNER_30K.NYT">founded 2007, sold 2011 to Corner Media: {{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/nyregion/blog-sites-sheepshead-bites-and-bensonhurst-bean-merge.html |title=Corner Media Expands Its Network of Brooklyn Blogs |author=Vivian Yee |authorlink=Vivian Yee |date=July 16, 2014}}</ref> after five years on its own, was folded into Bklyner.<ref>''Ditmas Park Corner'' was standalone 2012 thru 2017, then "incorporated into" {{cite news |newspaper=BKLYNER |url=https://bklyner.com/ditmas-park-corner-joins-bklyner-ditmas-park |title=Ditmas Park Corner Joins BKLYNER - BKLYNER |date=December 28, 2016}}</ref> Prior to merging into Bklyner, ''Ditmas Park Corner'' funded paying a reporter to walk around the neighborhood.<ref name="BKLYNER_30K.NYT" /><ref>NYT: starting salary $30,000</ref>

On 26 August 2021, editor Liena Zagare announced that Bklyner would cease publication on 10 September 2021 after over 50,000 articles, citing financial sustainability issues and a burnout caused in particular by the two years prior.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Bklyner |url=https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/ |title=Bklyner's Last Day: Sept. 10 |author=Liena Zagare |date=August 26, 2021}}</ref>

==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"<ref name="BKLYNERwhoPays.NYT2017"/> 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.<ref>The author is BKLYNER's founder's husband: {{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-journalists-newspapers.html |title=Bail Out Journalists. Let Newspaper Chains Die. |author=Ben Smith |date=March 29, 2020}}</ref>

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Category:Online journalism Category:2017 establishments in New York City Category:Free daily newspapers Category:Mass media in New York City