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

Posted by BeauHD on Monday May 9, 2016 @04:30PM from the little-guy dept.

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.

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Re:Eh? by Gavagai80 · 2016-05-09 19:00 · Score: 3, Informative

"Local" in this context means local to where the story takes place, not local to you.

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Foreign News Source Please by fatp · 2016-05-09 21:49 · Score: 4, Interesting

Living in somewhere basically all local news sources are government mouthpieces, what I want is foreign news source.