From NPR:

“AOL is best known as an Internet service provider, the one that sent out all those promotional CDs back in the ’90s. Now, the company is working to reinvent itself, and as part of that, it is making a big push into hyperlocal journalism with a project called Patch. On Tuesday, it launched its 100th local news site. Patch says it will expand to 500 small communities by the end of this year, but it faces big competition and an uncertain future.

“A large part of the reason Patch exists is because there is this void in local news and information that we can fill,” says Warren Webster, the president of Patch. Read more here. More local community journalism is a good cause in our opinion, so we’d like to see Patch succeed.