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September 30, 2022

Platform profile: How Patch Labs is trying to help individual journalists bridge gaps left by local papers

By Bron Maher

Hyperlocal news provider Patch’s start-up, Patch Labs, wants to help local journalists in the US go full-time covering their communities.

The outfit offers independent reporters a ready-made content management system in return for 10% of their revenue.

At present it only has a few hundred sign ups. But its director of growth and partnerships says Patch Labs wants to become “the CMS of choice” for hyperlocal journalists.

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