Main Street Connect, AOL Patch Competitor, Launches in New Rochelle

Written By: Robert Cox

MainstreetconnectlogoMain Street Connect, a competitor to AOL Patch, has launched in New Rochelle, NY.

http://www.thedailynewrochelle.com/

PaidContent.org: Main Street Connect’s Most Ambitious Launch Yet

Hyperlocal network Main Street Connect has rolled out 32 community-based news sites in its biggest launch to date. The areas covered by the launch covering Westchester County from the Sound Shore communities of New Rochelle and Rye to the Hudson River towns of Dobbs Ferry and Tarrytown to the northern hills of Bedford and North Salem.

Main Street Connect bills itself as “Main Street Connect is a national community news company. We’re dedicated to producing high-quality, local news and information, and sharing the voices of our readers with the community at large. ”

AOL Patch has 800+ web sites in its ad network and plans to continue its aggressive growth. Main Street Connect has expanded from 10 sites to 50+ this year but plans to have 3,000+ sites by 2013. The company was founded in 2009. Publishers like AOL Patch/Huffington Post, Main Street Connect, Examiner.com and Demand Media (owners of eHow.com) are known as content mills which focus on generating and aggregating large amounts of ad-driven media content, paying low rates to writers, while pumping keyword driven content and meta data into search engines. Content is typically produced using predetermined templates, optimized for search engines and highly repetitive.

3 thoughts on “Main Street Connect, AOL Patch Competitor, Launches in New Rochelle”

  1. Good Luck and some advice
    Please don’t listen to only one side of the story and don’t let that demcratic machine in city hall tell you what to write and when to write it. I see Noam already has this site up on his web page. I hope he is not there story teller like he is to patch. I guess we will have to read and learn.

    1. Thanks
      Hello eye on new roc,

      I am James Plunkett, a reporter for TheDailyNewRochelle.com, and I absolutely agree with your sentiment. A news organization should never be a mouthpiece for the government. It is my hope that TheDailyNewRochelle.com is seen as a respectable news site with solid, community reporting at its core.

      I welcome any and all feedback. My contact information is available on our website.

      Thank you, Mr. Cox, for mentioning TheDailyNewRochelle.com as a new voice in the community.

      James Plunkett

      1. Welcome to New Rochelle
        “A news organization should never be a mouthpiece for the government”.

        Amen, brother!

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