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HuffPost Goes Local: Introducing HuffPost Chicago: The Huffington Post just unveiled its first local edition,
HuffPost Chicago. It'll be interesting to see how this works out, since Chicago's local media market is already pretty packed. One thing I really like about the Chicago local media scene is the wealth of citizen journalism there. I wonder if HuffPost Chicago will find ways to highlight and incorporate those efforts?
US: Mobile news market to be ripe (Editorsweblog): "The Times' mobile site, which drew 500,000 page views in January 2007, received over 10 million hits by December of the same year, and soared up to 19 million views in May 2008. ...Is mobile news more adapted to local news outlets that can send out locally relevant alerts to users? 'I think it is most definitely appropriate for them but by no means exclusive for them,' said NYT director of mobile products Robert Samuels. National brands can also establish themselves on the local mobile news market."
NYTimes.com also offers a free iPhone application -- which is good, because so far it doesn't auto-detect the iPhone and route you to the mobile site. More on what's in the works for the NY Times online and mobile offerings.
CBS Launches Mobile News Hurricane Center (FierceWireless): I just checked this mobile out. It's mobile-friendly, all right -- but where's the option to get text alerts sent to you for designated states or zip codes? Especially during an emergency, cell systems get jammed and text messaging is more reliable than even pared-down mobile sites. Plus, there's lots of value to "push" content in those situations.
T-Mobile to Offer First Phone With Google Software (NYTimes.com): If you publish mobile content, looks like it's time to start figuring out how do deliver your content effectively to phones using Google's Android mobile platform, since it's coming soon. "T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google's Android software, according to people briefed on the company’s plans. The phone will be made by HTC, one of the largest makers of mobile phones in the world, and is expected to go on sale in the United States before Christmas, perhaps as early as October."
