Google announced on the Google News blog that they have added a “Local Source” tag to surface local coverage of major stories. The tagging aspect is automated. Google said they automatically identify ...

There are typically two ways a news story goes national. Either a national news organization covers it, or a local news source does the initial work before larger outlets pick up on it. Google News is ...

Among all adults, the most closely followed local topics are weather, breaking news, politics and crime, all followed by a solid majority of two thirds or more. Slightly less popular topics but still ...

For many years, polls have shown that local TV is the most popular medium in America for news. This survey, however, adds interesting and limiting dimensions to that finding. Local TV (which for the ...