Summarizing abroad scholar’s research on hyperlocal journalism from 2005 and concluding the background, characters of hyperlocal news content and the theory, I try to find how the hyperlocal journalism and the research develop. First of all, decline of media industry and application of new media technology push journalism to turn to “hyperlocal”. Second, hyperlocal Journalism is the hybrid of citizen journalism and community journalism in web 2.0, which is a useful try of its development. Third, professional journalists and big media open hyperlocal news websites, focusing on small geography, reporting news about neighborhoods through citizen journalists and flling perceived gaps in coverage of an issue or region. And hyperlocal news websites handle the responsibility of watchdog on local government, which is helpful to local democracy and community building. Citizen journalists take part in the procedure of news production, which fulfills needs of communication and self-expression. On hyperlocal news websites, citizen can debate freely about public lives about community, which may shape “hyperlocal public sphere”. Although, scholars and journalists hesitate about the truth and professionalism of hyperlocal journalism, it may be the hope of media industry according to the new technology and model of business. Some scholars hail for the age of new type of journalism, which can save the declining legacy media.