Local newspaper has been the spine of Swedish media industry for more than a century. But the last 10 years, local newspapers and local journalism has suffered hard setbacks – newsrooms have been reduced and more than one third of the local offices have been closed (Nygren and Althén 2014). Coverage of local issues is diminishing, and at the same time circulation is dropping causing continuing economical problems (Ohlson 2015). Local media plays an important role on different levels, both for local identity and for local public sphere and local democracy (Kleis-Nielsen 2015). In US reduced local media has created local “news deserts”, and also in Sweden social life in large areas around big cities has been heavily underreported in media for a long time (Nygren 2005). The last ten years also sparsely populated areas in the country has lost a quite good local journalism, and became news deserts. But at the same time new types of local media are growing in areas where traditional newspapers are weak or have been withdrawing, a development similar to for example UK (Williams et al 2015). In the first complete mapping of all kind of local media in Sweden, there are many kind of these new local media often created on a hyperlocal level – free sheets in parts of metropolitan areas, local online newssites and also local subscribed weeklies. A new local media landscape is emerging. This paper will give an overview on new hyperlocal media in Sweden. It is based on a survey by telephone to community authorities and on a survey to a sample of hyperlocal media producers. The paper discuss questions regarding sustainability of new kind of local media – what kind of content do they offer citizens, economical models they are based on and the relation to local community. The basic question is to what extent these new types of local media can replace traditional news media, what are the advantages and problems connected with this development in relation to local democracy. One key question is the degree of professionalism in these new kind of hyperlocal media – how content produced by semi-professionals and citizens relate to traditional normative standards of journalism.