Mobile news and mobile news strategies are constantly being touted as the next big thing – delivering mobile content to the always-on consumer is a big dream for many.
Dominic Ponsford’s Is iPhone App future of local news? in Press Gazette states that
Some 50 Mobile Local News applications are now live in the US on the Apple App Store, according to Inergize Digital and DoApp Inc (via Editor and Publisher.
Dominic rightly says that it’s an interesting idea and only a matter of time before someone does it in the UK.
But this is where a crucial issue comes in – how many local or hyperlocal news outlets can develop this kind of thing?
I was looking back through my bookmarks and found this link to Standford’s iTunesU course on iPhone Application Programming.
Yes this is only one platform, but a very interesting one – particularly given you can use the same technology to create news apps for the iTouch.
I just posted on local news being overly interested in people watching them (than providing news), esp. in their use of teasers, so think we could do better in getting local news out.