TAP In The News
March 6, 2024: Someone Needs To Be At These Meetings
March 4, 2024: A New Model for Community Journalism
January 29, 2024: Meet The Local Media Conference That Feels More Like A Radio Confab.
December 22, 2023: The Rebirth of Local Journalism
October 2, 2023: TAPinto, Franchised Local News Portal Born in New Providence, Turns 15
October 2, 2023: TAPinto Turns 15 Today
September 27, 2023: Community Highlights: Meet Michael Shapiro of TAPinto
September 21, 2023: Franchise Deep Dive: TAPinto Franchise Costs, Fees, Profit and Data
August 30, 2023: Meet the Zor Podcast with Michael Shapiro, Founder and CEO of TAPinto
May 18, 2023: LMA announces news outlets in 4th cohort of Lab for Journalism Funding
May 3, 2023: Real Leaders Podcast: Michael Shapiro, CEO of TAPinto
April 8, 2023: Despite Settling Lesniak Lawsuit, Patch Still Posting Unverified Content
February 15, 2023: Revenue Roundup: Co-op advertising. Billions hiding in plain sight
February 14, 2023: Winners selected for 2023 Excellence in NJ Local News Awards
December 5, 2022: St. Bonaventure joins a news franchise network to increase student impact
September 7, 2022: TAPinto Founder Michael Shapiro Discusses His Digital Journey to Provide Hyperlocal News
May 4, 2022: Milestone Mindset Live: Local Marketing in a Digital World
April 27, 2022: A network of community news franchises: Mike Shapiro on what makes TAPinto click
April 21, 2022: Q&A with Michael M. Shapiro, founder and CEO, TAPinto.net
March 1, 2022: Ten News Publishers That Do It Right
November 17, 2021: Michael Shapiro: Rebirth of Local News
November 1, 2021: From Network TV News Producer to Editor of Over 90 Pureplay Local News Sites, Meet Adam Darsky
March 26, 2021: Local News, Marketing, and Franchising: Michael Shapiro
January 1, 2021: Four Small Business New Year's Resolutions for Success in 2021
December 7, 2020: Inside TAPinto's Franchise Model for Local News
November 24, 2020: Innovation and a Sharper Focus: How Local News is Weathering the Coronavirus Storm
November 11, 2020: It's Not All Gloom and Doom. These 9 Local News Orgs Are Thriving.
August 19, 2020: DIY Branded Content Revenue Grows 45% for TAPinto - Even During a Pandemic
August 6, 2020: Can Digital Business Models Save Local News?
August 5, 2020: Entrepreneurs Buying Into TAPinto Franchise Business Model
August 4, 2020: The Best of Branded Content: Branded Content Lightning Rounds - TAPinto
July 30, 2020: #TheNewsProjectLive with Merrill Brown and Alex Leo: Making it With a Local News Startup:
May 19, 2020: Innovation Spring 2020
April 8, 2020: NJ News Commons Partners Awarded Facebook Journalism Project Reporting Grants to Cover the Coronavirus
April 3, 2020: TAPinto Network Highlights Work of Bona Journalism Professors and Students
April 2, 2020: Lenox Expands Media Company
March 26, 2020: Announcing the First Round of Grants Supporting Local Newsrooms' Coronavirus Coverage
March 4, 2020: The Beta Test Begins
February 26, 2020: Why Local News Outlets Struggle with Digital Subscriptions
February 17, 2020: Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Excellence in Local News Awards
January 7, 2020: Mike Blinder is 1 on 1 with Mike Shapiro, Publisher and CEO of the TAPinto Network
January 1, 2020: How can we restore public confidence in journalism?
August 26, 2019: News You Can Use: When Local Media Outlets Go Dark, Everyone Loses - Even if People Don't Realize it Right Away
July 12, 2019: Podcast with Michael Shapiro, Founder and CEO - TAPinto.net Hyperlocal News Network
May 1, 2019: This Media Company Has Launched 81 Local News Sites and is Expanding
April 21, 2019: Passage to Profit on iHeart Radio with Mike Shapiro
March 15, 2019: How local news outlets can compete with the Facebook/Google duopoly
February 19, 2019: Mark Di Ionno joins TAPinto chain
February 9, 2019: Center for Cooperative Media Announces Winners of the 2019 NJ News Commons Excellence in Local News Awards
January 14th, 2019: How Mike Shapiro has grown his franchise model TAPinto to nearly 80 websites
November 13th, 2018: Michael Shapiro Talks Tapping In To Your Community On The Danny Tisdale Show (Audio)
October 31st, 2018: Creative Paterson: How journalism and storytelling can move communities forward
August 16th, 2018: A Probing Look at Local News Comes to Some Disturbing Conclusions
June 17th, 2018: Michael Shapiro stopped by MSNBC Your Business to talk about his keys to success, building healthy business relationships & more with JJ Ramberg
February 15th, 2018: This former lawyer launched a thriving local news network in New Jersey
February 8th, 2018: With 66 Franchises, TAPinto Is Ready to Expand Up and Down Coast
December 4th, 2017: New Jersey Media: #5Questions with Leah Scalzadonna of TAPinto Cranford
December 1st, 2017: Cranford Radio partners with TAPinto Cranford to create collaborative local news podcast
October 5th, 2017: Time to Take a Deep Breath — Local News Isn’t Becoming ‘Extinct’
October 2nd, 2017: This hyperlocal news network in New Jersey is thriving
June 14th, 2017: Shapiro Taps into Franchise Model to Spread His Online News Site’s Hyperlocal Mission
April 6th, 2017: When Human Capital Management Meets Inspiration: TAPinto Berkeley Heights
March 17th, 2017: TAPinto.net Providing Hyperlocal News to NJ Communities
January 27th, 2017: TAPinto's 60 Franchises Launch Mobile App to Reach Young Users More Directly
January 3, 2017: In New Jersey, Only a Few Media Watchdogs Are Left
December 5, 2016: New Jersey Media: #5Questions with Michael Shapiro of TAPinto.net
October 13, 2016: TAPinto Grows to 57 News Franchises; Eyes National Reach
October 13, 2016: Sustain Local 2016: How Local Journalism Can Thrive with Partnerships, Community Engagement
June 12, 2016: Case Study: A Successful Career Transition for a Local Banking Executive Searching for a Way to Give Back to her Community
April 4, 2016: The Hyper-Local Media Magnate Journalism Can’t Ignore, Media Shift
March 25, 2016: New Jersey Sites Tap Into Local News, Columbia Journalism Review
January 27, 2016: Two-Way Conversion: Aim to Convert Readers into Multichannel Consumers, EContent
November 9, 2015: Franchises Make Scale Profitable for TAPinto.net’s Two-State Network, Street Fight
September 22, 2015: Franchisee TAPs Into Two Online News Franchises
July 31, 2015: Tapping into Online and Mobile News, Discovering a Passion
July 21, 2015: Who's making money - and who isn't - in local online news?
May 26, 2015: Five Creative Ways To Fund Your Small Business, Money
May 15, 2015: Can Your Business Survive Google's 'Mobilegeddon'?, Forbes
April 22, 2015: Politicians Scrutinize the N.J. Media at Kean University Event
April 2015: A Location for Local News: TAPinto.net has Saved Money and Improved Communications
February 6, 2015: Community Publishers Mixed on Borrell Prescription for Content
January 7, 2015: A Look Back at Your 2015 Brags
December 29, 2014: Will 2015 be Breakthrough Year for Community News?
December 3, 2014: Are Community News Sites and Investors Ready for Each Other?
October 28, 2014: How a New Jersey lawyer created a scalable model for online local news
October 10, 2014: Local Fix: New Revenue Ideas, Fearing Facebook and Does Local Scale?
October 9, 2014: Mike Shapiro's TAP Gets New Branding and a Network Strategy
August 15, 2014: News 12 New Jersey Interviews Jackie Lieberman of TAP into Westfield
July 27, 2014: New Jersey Now: Local News Gathering
May 7, 2014: The Local News Comback
April 7, 2014: Can local news scale? The Alternative Press tests a franchise model in New Jersey
April 3, 2014: Alternative Press Expands Hyperlocal Network Into Suburban Philly
March 24, 2014: The Alternative Press Expands to Pennsylvania
March 4, 2014: The News in New Jersey: Start Me Up
March 3, 2014: Ex-Patch Reporters Launch New Hyperlocal Sites
February 14, 2014: Could a Hybrid Model Scale Community News and Keep the Passion?
January 30, 2014: NJTV News with Mike Schneider
September 25, 2013: Seven Grants Awarded to Start-Up News Sites
August 8, 2013: ‘Understanding the Reader’ and the Bottom Line: Do They Connect?
May 17, 2013: Opportunity Knocks
March 8, 2013: Hyperlocal Cooties
February 11, 2013: How to Scale Local, and Stay Entrepreneurial
January 17, 2013: Anatomy of a Startup - Part 2
January 2, 2013: Anatomy of a Startup - Part 1
November 8, 2012: Hyperlocal Hotbed Thrives in New Jersey
http://www.netnewscheck.com/article/22378/hyperlocal-hotbed-thrives-in-new-jersey
November 6, 2012: How One Hyperlocal Editor and His Site Chased, and Were Chased by, Sandy
October 29, 2012: Hyperlocals Dig In as Sandy Bears Down on East Coast Communities
September 27, 2012: Civics, Humanities and News Media in New Jersey, Princeton Media Forum
September 27, 2012: New Jersey Hyperlocal Network TAP Celebrates 4 Years, Continues to Expand
June 26, 2012: Hyperlocal Net Takes on Patch in New Jersey
May 31, 2012: NJ’s TAP Grows Indie Hyperlocal Network Through Licensing
http://streetfightmag.com/2012/05/31/njs-tap-grows-indie-hyperlocal-network-through-licensing/
May 17, 2012: Hometown passion fueling local news, indie publishers in NJ - Block by Block
May 17, 2012: How Hyperlocals Can Burn in Their Brand - StreetFight Magazine
http://streetfightmag.com/2012/05/17/how-hyperlocals-can-burn-in-their-brand/
April 4, 2012: Kjelene Interiews CEO Samuel Burlum And Managing Editor Of The Alternative Press Jennifer Jean Miller
March 2012 Freelancer Jennifer Jean Miller on Launching a Local News Site -- Ebyline Blog
http://ebyline.biz/2012/03/freelancer-jennifer-jean-miller-on-launching-a-local-new-site/
March 2012 Can Long-Tail EBooks Give New Life to Old News? – StreetFight Magazine
http://streetfightmag.com/2012/03/08/can-long-tail-e-books-give-new-life-to-old-news/
February 2012 Hyperlocal is the New Reality - The Marketing Advantage
http://advantage-marketingblog.com/2012/02/06/hyperlocal-the-new-reality/
October 2011 Mike Shapiro, The Man Behind The Alternative Press – Yahoo Voices
June 2011 – Politifax New Jersey
Winner: Mike Shapiro
The Millburn Short/Hills Chamber of Commerce elected to its Board the founder of The Alternative Press, an all-online objective daily newspaper covering 15 New Jersey towns,. The Alternative Press is a model for local cyber journalism.
July 2011 Public Forum with Nick Acocella interviewing Mike Shapiro
- The Hall Institute for Public Policy
The Alternative Press: A Successful Hyperlocal in the Garden State
The story of why InJersey went out has been told in so many conflicting ways it could be called “Garden State Rashomon.”… streetfightmag.com
http://streetfightmag.com/2011/07/14
Winner: Mike Shapiro
The Millburn Short/Hills Chamber of Commerce elected to its Board the founder of The Alternative Press, an all-online objective daily newspaper covering 15 New Jersey towns. The Alternative Press is a model for local cyber journalism.
- Politifax New Jersey June 1, 2011
eMediaVitals.com 65 Broadway, Suite 601, New York, NY 10006:
http://emediavitals.com/content/profitable-hyperlocal-news-outlet
AOL's local-news venture looks for green in Morristown
- The Star-Ledger, August 17, 2010
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2010/08/aols_local-news_experiment_loo.html
Hall Institute Launches New Video, Audio Features, February 4, 2010
http://www.hallnj.org/index.php
Rutgers Magazine Interviews AP Editor Michael Shapiro, January 15, 2010
http://www.alumni.rutgers.edu/s/896/indexNoRot.aspx?sid=896
Panelists: Citizen Scribes Can Help Society Asbury Park Press, November 19, 2009
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091119/999999999/911190335
Talk to The Times: Editor for Digital Initiatives New York Times, November 16, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/business/media/16askthetimes.html
Specialized News Sites Could Become the Next Big Thing New Jersey Business News, November 1, 2009
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2009/11/specialized_news_sites_could_b.html
Dateline: Maplewood New Jersey Monthly, October 31, 2009
http://njmonthly.com/articles/lifestyle/dateline-maplewood.html
Less News is Bad News, October 2009
http://www.njpp.org/assets/reports/democracy-media/2-rpt_mediacrisis.pdf
Local Focus Keeps News Gathering Afloat Franklin Center, September 28, 2009
http://www.franklincenterhq.org/2009/09/28/local-focus-keeps-news-gathering-afloat/
The Alternative Press New Jersey Monthly, September 22, 2009
http://njmonthly.com/blogs/njmyway/2009/9/22/the-alternative-press.html
Hyperlocal Journalism Gets Legit Minyanville.com, September 18, 2009
http://www.minyanville.com/articles/journalism-hyperlocal-newspapers-media-reporters/index/a/24554
TheAlternativePress.com Launches Financial News Section Forbes.com, August 5, 2009
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/businesswire/2009/08/05/businesswire127519955.html
10 Towns and 10,000,000 Hits Strong: All-Online Daily Hyperlocal Newspaper, TheAlternativePress.com, Expands to Chatham, New Jersey PRNewswire.com, June 1, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/lr4o4s
Interview with TheAlternativePress.com Editor Michael M. Shapiro BlogTalkRadio.com, May 7, 2009
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Hall_Institute/2009/05/26/The-Hall-Institutes-Weekly-Review-and-Analysis-of-the-New-Jersey-Governor-Race-TBA
Garden State Green Section of TheAlternativePress.com Becomes New Jersey's New Home for Environmental News and Information, EarthTimes.org, May 7, 2009
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/garden-state-green-section-of,815662.shtml
Going Loco for Local: TheAlternativePress.com, All-Online Daily Local NJ Newspaper Expands to Westfield, Surpasses 6 Million Hits, The Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/cxgle8
TheAlternativePress.com Coming to Westfield, Bruno Tedeschi, April 30, 2009
http://www.brunotedeschi.com/myblogs/jerseynew-media/83-alternative-press-coming-to-westfield
One of the best local news sites in the country...
-Tina Kelley, The New York Times, May 2, 2009
http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com