Will Patch have every Boston neighborhood covered before boston.com does even one Your Town site in its own city?

By adamg on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 11:53pm

The AOL hypermicrominisuperlocal effort is opening up sites for Jamaica Plain and the South End.

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Yes, they probably will.

By Deehan
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 12:50am

But let's see them try to compete in Dorchester. Not likely.

(disclosure: I freelance for Patch)

Where'd you hear it?

By Kate Vander Widee
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 1:52am

Where did you hear it was coming to the South End, specifically?

My source for all Patch hiring news: Craigslist

By adamg
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 9:02am

Sorry, I should have included the links:

South End
Jamaica Plain

Oh, and for those keeping score

By adamg
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 9:07am

JP Patch's editor is Chris Helms, so chalk up another GateHouse poaching.

Another one for the scoreboard

By Kaz
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 9:39am

They poached a friend of mine to be the Weston Patch editor from TechTarget. She wasn't the first to leave there for Patch.

Thanks for noticing, Adam!

By Chris Helms
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 11:25am

Yes, I have been poached by Patch. I'm building a team to do JP business and organization listings now. Our launch date hasn't been set, but I'll keep you and UHub up to date.

My wife and I bought in JP for a reason. I'm really happy to be launching a JP site.

Chris, Do you happen to know

By Kate Vander Wiede
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 1:52pm

Chris,

Do you happen to know who is taking the SE helm?

Yes

By Chris Helms
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 2:59pm

It's Alix Roy.

They keep poaching people

By anon
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 10:03am

They keep poaching people from Boston Globe YourTown too

Thank you!

By Kate Vander Widee
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 12:28pm

Thank you!

Clue us in

By fenwayguy
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 10:00pm

Is impersonating her with a misspelled last name supposed to be some kind of joke?

Nope, that was actually just

By Kate Vander Wiede
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 1:51pm

Nope, that was actually just a horrible typo on my part. Apologies!

More Neighborhoods

By anon
Thu, 07/15/2010 - 1:34pm

Beacon Hill, Back Bay, and Charlestown are not far behind, too.