iPhone app delivers geo-targeted and personalized news
Several years back we saw two separate efforts to deliver hyperlocal news in printed form – first The Printed Blog, then a similar effort from The New York Times – and recently we came across something similar in digital form. Now taking advantage of today’s mobile geo-targeting capabilities, SPUN delivers city-specific news and information via an iPhone app. READ MORE…
Tool gives users the news, and suggests what they can do about it
This week, we’ve already written about MSF.TV, the news station that aims to keep viewers more informed and encourage them to donate. Now, ShoutAbout is a tool that enables news providers to empower readers by offering information on the meaningful actions they can take to help out with the situation they are reading about. READ MORE…
Charity TV station reports the news that mainstream media overlooks
The internet has helped charities benefit from a variety of ways to encourage donations – take France-based TousDonateurs as an example with its ad revenue fundraising model – but awareness and engagement can still be a challenge. Unhappy with the lack of coverage given to important humanitarian issues on mainstream media outlets, international aid charity Médecins Sans Frontières has created its own online channel, MSF.TV. READ MORE…
iPhone app delivers news tailored specifically for mobile phones
The news medium has undergone radical transformation in recent years, bringing us a world where headlines can be delivered via personal ticker or on the paper sleeves that accompany take-out coffee, to name just two examples. The latest spotting? Circa, a new iPhone app that serves up news in a format customized specifically for mobile phones. READ MORE…
In the UAE, coffee chain’s cup sleeve is printed with the hour’s top headline
If advertising can be emblazoned on napkins, office coffee cups and beer-bottle tags, then why not the ubiquitous coffee-cup sleeve? That, indeed, is precisely the chosen medium in a new campaign developed recently by Y&R Dubai for Gulf News. READ MORE…
From the New York Times’ The Local to CNN’s Open Stories, recent years have seen citizen journalism become more and more integrated with professional news reporting. Now, new mobile photojournalism platform Tackable enables reporters and editors to create photo assignments for readers to complete using their smartphones, with the aim of helping them write better articles, faster. READ MORE…Platform for citizen photojournalism offers map of local content
We’ve covered news aggregators on our virtual pages before, but now we’ve come across something a little different. Aiming to bring more news reports from around the world before the eyes of English-speaking readers, French Worldcrunch selects, translates and edits content from top foreign-language outlets and delivers them online to English speakers. READ MORE…News from global outlets, translated for English-speaking readers
Interactive t-shirts narrate a ‘book of the world’
Forced into a corner by the challenges posed online, we’re seeing some interesting innovations coming out of the publishing industry. Just last month there was The Drum, for example — the literary magazine that’s published exclusively in audio form. Now N-spired Story is a Spanish effort that aims to publish a “book of the world” on interactive, limited-edition t-shirts. READ MORE…
News site highlights analysis by academic and research experts
As the news industry has struggled to redefine itself in recent years, it seems fair to say that the majority of the new approaches we’ve seen tested out have focused on incorporating the work and views of citizen reporters. A new online publication recently launched in Australia, however, takes quite a different tack by placing the spotlight on academic and research experts instead. READ MORE…
