NPR’s John Dankosky has interviewed a few people who are trying to fill the local news void created by the retreat of The Courant.

His guests —  Paul Bass of the New Haven Independent; Lon Siedman, creator of a local online news operation in West Hartford; and Amy Jeffries and Brian Farnham of Patch.com — are all folks who have appeared on the refugee site from time to time.

Here’s a link to Dankosky’s show.

I have bone to pick, however, with the term “hyperlocal, ” as does Paul Bass. (You can listen to his assessment on Dankosky’s show.)

Hyperlocal is a term invented by corporate news managers who don’t want to (or cannot afford to) cover local communities; and, consequently, want to make such work seem small and somehow below some sort of broader standard they call “local.”

They want “local” to mean the news that applies to a group they pick as the smallest geo-political group they select — regional news, for example.

So I reject the term “hyperlocal.” It is local news, period.