Editor's Notebook: Patch Celebrates its 100th Site Launch

Launch in New Jersey marks milestone for community journalism.

This morning in a small town in New Jersey, a new website suddenly blinked into being. And while the happenings in Morristown (population 18,000) are likely of little interest to anyone here in Brookline, this morning's launch was a milestone in the history of community journalism and what we've been doing here at Brookline Patch for the last six weeks. If you're reading this, you already know that what we're doing is something new and different, something that hasn't been done quite like this before. While we didn't invent community journalism, we've brought it up to speed, made it respond to how people in Brookline live. No longer do we wait for Thursday's paper to learn about last Friday's news, or leaf through a phone book to find the …