Google News Will Now Highlight Local News Sources For Major Stories (theverge.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Google's News section will now highlight the importance of local news sources. "When a local story is picked up by national publishers, it can be difficult for local sources to be heard even after they've done the legwork and research to break a story," admits James Morehead, Google News product manager. Google is helping with a new change today that will see a "Local Source" tag applied to all Google News instances. Google is tagging local news based on where a publisher has written about previously and matching it to a story location. Tagged articles will be available on the web and in Google's iOS and Android apps, and will serve as a way to highlight a local source on a national story.

Comments

Did they find homegrown clickbait?

[Anonymous Coward]

Google also seems to display the clickbaitiest headlines first, followed by the rest. Does that mean they've found more local bits thereof?