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Neighborsgo is a weekly community newspaper published by The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with a circulation of 264,459 subscribers, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in September 2010...

. Each Friday, 11 print editions are distributed to more than 340,000 households in the Dallas area. The material in print editions comes primarily from user-submitted material on the Web site, neighborsgo.comhttp://www.neighborsgo.com, where editors interact with community members. Like TribLocal http://www.triblocal.com in Chicago and YourHub http://yourhub.com in Denver, neighborsgo is one of several publications produced by major metropolitan newspapers that integrate user-generated and professionally produced media.

Background

Neighborsgo is owned by the A. H. Belo
A. H. Belo
A. H. Belo Corporation is a Dallas-based media company that owns four daily newspapers and five smaller newspapers. The current corporation was formed when Belo Corporation separated its broadcasting and publishing operations into two corporations. A. H. Belo also owns a part interest in...

 Corp. Other Dallas-Fort Worth online, print, TV and radio media outlets often use neighborsgo material in their coverage of community news.

Print edition

In April 2005, The Dallas Morning News launched four editions of a weekly newspaper called "Neighbors." The response to the reader-generated newspaper was positive enough that, by the end of 2006, 12 more "Neighbors" were being published.

In 2011, 11 print editions of neighborsgo are published by The Dallas Morning News every Friday and have a combined circulation of more than 340,000 copies. News subscribers receive neighborsgo with their Friday editions, as do subscribers to Briefing, the free newspaper for busy suburban families.

Communities

Print editions currently include these D/FW communities:

Allen/Frisco/McKinney

Best Southwest: Cedar Hill/DeSoto/Duncanville/Lancaster | Oak Cliff | Grand Prairie

Carrollton/Farmers Branch/Addison

Garland/Mesquite

Irving/Coppell

Park Cities/North Dallas

Plano/Murphy/Wylie

Richardson/Lake Highlands/Far North Dallas

Rockwall/Rowlett

Lewisville/Flower Mound

White Rock/M Streets/Lakewood

Website

The website for the publication is neighborsgo.com http://www.neighborsgo.com, where Dallas-area residents can post news, videos, photos and blogs about their communities. The stories in print editions of neighborsgo come primarily from submitted material on the Web site, which was launched in April 2007.

Once readers post their content on the site, neighborsgo editors publish the most relevant stories and photos into one of the weekly print editions.

The Web site for neighborsgo allows visitors to create an online profile like they would on Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

. Users can access content specific to their community, communicate with each other, create or comment on blog posts, and share stories in their own words and images.

As of August 2011, more than 27,000 area residents were members of neighborsgo.com. More than 70,000 stories, 45,000 photos and 2,100 videos had been posted online, and the Web site had been clicked on more than eight million times.

Facebook

The Facebook fan page for neighborsgohttp://www.facebook.com/neighborsgo is designed to further engage readers and encourage them to share photos and stories about their communities that can be published in print editions.

Twitter

In April 2009, neighborsgo embraced micro-blogging service Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

 as another way to create connections among neighbors. Their main Twitter account is @neighborsgo http://twitter.com/neighborsgo.

Jason Castro

The website was frequently used for Jason Castro coverage in early 2008. Jason Castro was an American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...

 contestant who hailed from one of neighborsgos communities: Rockwall, Texas. The site http://neighborsgo.com/jasoncastro includes videos from before he was discovered all the way up until his homecoming parade after the season ended.

London Levi

The neighborsgo site also covered London Levi's experience on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 12
America's Next Top Model, Cycle 12
America's Next Top Model, Cycle 12 is the twelfth cycle of America's Next Top Model and the sixth season to air on The CW network. It premiered on March 4, 2009. The cycle's catch phrase is "Get In The Fold." The cycle's promotional song is Lady Gaga's "The Fame".The first half of the cycle took...

http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/30392. Levi, a street preacher from Arlington, Texas, was one of the final seven women on the modeling competition reality show. Site contributors and neighborsgo editors followed Levi through the show, writing blog posts every week and commenting on the events of each episode http://www.neighborsgo.com/index.php?page_id=1000&site_page_id=302&sblog_id=1091.

Lenny Kravitz

In June 2010, musical artist Lenny Kravitz participated in an impromptu jam session with a church choir in New Orleans that became a popular video on YouTube http://neighborsgo.com/video/2569. neighborsgo.com featured a storyhttp://neighborsgo.com/stories/56744 about the Voices of Praise choir from Lewisville.
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