Patch, which has continued to grow rapidly in the wake of AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post earlier this year, is launching 33 hyperlocal sites in three states with early presidential primaries—New Hampshire, Iowa, and South Carolina. The new sites mean Patch will soon have sites in 21 states, up…

AOL’s Patch network of hyperlocal blogs, which has suggested that a number of initiatives are coming to increase community engagement with its sites, has hired well-respected Brooklyn hyperlocal blogger Liena Zagare to lead the effort. Zagare will have the title of national community editor and tells us she will be…

AOL’s Patch network of hyperlocal news sites is making its first major update since AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post last month, integrating Huffington Post technology in an effort to get citizens in each of its communities to contribute their own content to its sites. In a memo today, first…

In a scene from Casino Jack, when a partner complains about a negative story in Newsweek, Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff has that week’s Time ready with a different take. The Jan. 24 issue of The New Yorker is a bit like both when it comes to AOL: a six-page…

AOL’s hyperlocal network Patch has launched its 500th site this morning, fulfilling CEO Tim Armstrong’s August pledge. In other Patch news, its presence may have led an established local newspaper to kill its paywall experiment in light of the added—and freely accessible—competition from the AOL (NYSE: AOL) network.

Patch, which has already established itself as the biggest network of neighborhood blogs in the country since being acquired by AOL last summer, plans to accelerate its growth dramatically. Patch President Warren Webster tells us the company will add a staggering 400 hyperlocal sites over the next six months, bringing…

While most of the big players hoping to crack the local news market—from Everyblock to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)—have chosen to primarily aggregate third-party info on their sites, AOL’s Patch has chosen an alternate—and costly—strategy: hiring full-time editors in dozens of markets across the country to produce original content about the…

AOL’s Patch—which is in the midst of a blistering expansion—is now moving into the non-profit journalism space. The company says it will partner with “community foundations and other organizers” to set up hyperlocal news sites in communities “around the world that lack adequate news media and online local information resources.”…

In preparation for the pending spin off, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) filed a form 10 with the SEC today for AOL Inc., the name the company will be known by as a Delaware corporation. One tidbit to start: Time Warner bought back Google (NSDQ: GOOG) 5 percent interest in AOL…