"MyNews" application developed!

09.05.2012

 

"MyNews" app is a citizen journalist mobile phone application that uses multimedia and geolocation to create real-time news which will be posted on www.mynews.am website. It allows users to post eyewitness accounts, news with headlines, text, video and images using their smartphones to the MyNews's database and to the www.mynews.am website.

MyNews allows to create and distribute news stories.
It is an application that enables the flow of news from people to people. Once registered and logged in to MyNews users can select multimedia content from their smartphones or can take photo and video material using their smartphones', tablets’ cameras. They can identify their location via GPS or manually. When the story is uploaded it is viewable by other visitors and citizen reporters of www.mynews.am via smartphones, tablets or computers. 

Citizen reporters can select a standard news category for their story, including business, entertainment, elections and others. Users can send their eyewitness reports to particular organizations, media outlets, journalists, activists that are registered in MyNews's databes and subscribed to receive news updates from MyNews's citizen reporters. Users of www.mynews.am can comment on user generated stories on the website. 

The app allows users to create a profile that others can view on www.mynews.am. MyNews does not have character limits on the text, so users can upload as much text as they deem necessary to the database.

The MyNews development team also does not edit any of the user uploaded media on MyNews. When and if content is inappropriate, readers can simply flag the story. Flagged posts are subject to review and cancellation by MyNews staff.

The app is available on Google Play and Apple App Store.