In a boost for the “non-profit foundations should take on media” crowd, EveryBlock.com, a hyper-local news site that tracks everything from
news videos to rerstaurant inspections in big-city neighborhoods, has been acquired by MSNBC for an undisclosed sum. EveryBlock covers markets in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, N.C., Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Jose, Calif., Seattle and Washington. Here’s the kicker: They were founded only a year and a half ago with a grant from the Knight Foundation. That grant expired June 30, and the six site employees have cashed in with the MSNBC deal.
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