The Sacramento Press Journalism Open is back! Below is the press release with key details: Sacramento, Calif. January 3, 2012 — Cutting-edge hyperlocal online newspaper The Sacramento Press announces the launch of its 2012 Journalism Open. Unlike many other local news sources, The Sacramento Press enables members of the community to tell stories about their neighborhoods. By holding the third annual Journalism Open, The Sacramento Press encourages journalists, community contributors and aspiring writers to share their neighborhood stories for a chance to win cash prizes. More than 50...

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Deal Ticket has relaunched on a new platform.Like its distinctively independent, hyperlocal approach to news coverage and commentary on the Sacramento area, The Sacramento Press delivers Deal Ticket, its version of the national trend in online deals, which is a weekly deal program that offers consumers 51-90% off on Sacramento’s top businesses every Tuesday through Friday. Deal Ticket sales representatives are able to partner face to face with local businesses to produce effective offers for local consumers. “Deal Ticket worked out really well for my business,” said Abraham Sanchez, owner...

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The Hon. Julius Genachowski Chairman Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 Dear Chairman Genachowski: October 3, 2011 The undersigned organizations are innovative local online news organizations serving communities across the country. We are new, start-up enterprises, and we are part of a growing movement of local online sites dedicated to news, information and community. As the legacy media industry has undergone increasing strain in engaging in local community and investigative reporting, our enterprises have stepped up to...

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As of today The Sacramento Press has an official mobile site. The great thing about this mobile site is that it can be found at the same location as our regular site, it's way more readable on your average smartphone. Our great development team optimized most of the pages on our site for the mobile browsing experience and those pages include: Sign-up Log in Front Page and Tag Pages User Profiles Search A screen capture of the new mobile front page of The Sacramento Press. (Image by: Joel Rosenberg) API or Application Programming Interface is a way for someone to interact with our site...

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A couple of days ago, something noteworthy happened on The Sacramento Press: We passed 10,000 articles on the site. These are all original works, and they are all local news and information about Sacramento. Some are of no real consequence. Some are even factually incorrect. But they are written by more than 1,000 different people with unique and valuable perspectives on our region (some professional, most amateur). Not only that, many of these stories are of major civic importance. All one has to do is visit our front page any day, and the laid-out portion across the top will be filled with...

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