With more than 75,000 news sources, many of the publishers in Google News specialize on specific topics and locales. The local section in Google News surfaces content from regional papers to hyper-local blogs that otherwise wouldn’t appear in national news.
But not all local stories stay local. 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. Consistent with our goal to surface diverse perspectives, we’re excited to share that a new "Local Source" tag is now live across all Google News editions. This new feature brings greater exposure for local news outlets reporting on stories that have gone national. "Local Source" articles are identified automatically by looking at where a publisher has written about in the past and comparing that to the story location. You’ll see the tagged articles in the
expanded story box on
news.google.com and in the Google News & Weather
iOS and
Android apps.
A great example of hyperlocal news is 9-year-old reporter Hilde Lysiak. Hilde made headlines when she reported on the story of a murder in her hometown which she published on her own local news site --
Orange Street News (
AMP-enabled to load really fast on mobile). Her reporting attracted the attention of major newspapers and morning shows like
Good Morning America after she was criticised for being too young to cover hard news. It was one reason we invited Hilde to visit the Googleplex on
World Press Freedom Day 2016. And just like Hilde, at Google News we are committed to connecting people to the news that matters most to them -- be that local, national or international.
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| 9-year-old Hilde Lysiak visited Google on World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2016. |
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