Hyperlocal

KQED QUEST

http://www.kqed.org/quest/

KQED, San Francisco

This public radio science and environmental program in San Francisco seeks to attract a new and younger audience by hosting its audio and video features for easy playback on the KQED site and making it easy for users to embed features on other sites with a simple code cut-and-paste. In the program’s first season, 18 percent of QUEST’s audience came from online views and listens, but that number has ballooned to 40 percent (or 755,000 views and listens) in season two.

The Associated Press Mobile News Network

http://www.apnews.com/

The Associated Press, New York

This service from AP recognizes where your Web-enabled cell phone is in the world and gives you the latest news relevant to that area. The content is provided by local newspapers as well as the AP wire. Over 100 news publishers are currently on board and providing content.

LoJoConnect.com: location-based technology + journalism

http://lojoconnect.com/

Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

A team of journalism graduate students, working under the direction of Associate Professor Rich Gordon, set out to explore “locative storytelling” - seeking to understand how journalists might use location-based technologies (such as GPS-enabled devices, mobile phones and interactive maps) to tell richer, more compelling stories. The most novel result of the students’ work was a series of three stories about Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid. The stories included narrated Web slideshows, downloadable audio tours and GPS-triggered multimedia.

Newsletter Sign Up

Privacy Policy

About J-Lab

J-Lab helps journalists and citizens use digital technologies to develop new ways for people to participate in public life with projects on innovations in journalism, citizen media, interactive stories, entrepreneurship, research, training, and publications.

E-Learning Portals

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
J-Lab is a center of American University's School of Communication in Washington, D.C.

Subscribe to J-Lab's RSS feed (What is RSS?)

Print this page | Site design by Hop Studios