News you can use
My last post talked about Facebook’s Mobile app opening geo-aware features. What if news had that same concept? When it comes to breaking news, the importance to the consumer is “does it matter to me?” If the event was in your neighborhood, wouldn’t you want to know? And if you travel around during the day, wouldn’t you want to know no matter where you were? Well, your phone knows where you are (scary thought, but true). Now you just need to tie that to a news organization and a mobile app.
In New York. 
The Wall Street Journal uses Four Square to push breaking news. This screen shot from dpstyles is manufactured, but does display what Four Square really looked like on a certain day if you were in Times Square. This has some serious potential. Laser-focused reporting. I’m sure by mid-summer someone will add picture capability. Then video. Then LIVE video.
Make yourself a mic flag, you’re on TV.
And does this reporting need to be one way? Does the future of journalism include at least some aspect of everyone “shouting out” using mobile apps? In a society that seems to be devaluing the talents and skills of true journalism for the scream and noise of news commentators, I wonder how this will play.
Additional Reading from Nieman Journalism Lab
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Make yourself a mic flag, you’re on TV.
And does this reporting need to be one way? Does the future of journalism include at least some aspect of everyone “shouting out” using mobile apps? In a society that seems to be devaluing the talents and skills of true journalism for the scream and noise of news commentators, I wonder how this will play.
Additional Reading from Nieman Journalism Lab
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