App of the week for journalists: Signal
A soon-to-be-released app to allow the users to rank the 'mini stories' submitted by citizen journalists
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App of the week:
Operating systems:
Apple (iPhone 3GS+, iPod touch, iPad2+). An Android version is in the pipeline.
Cost:
Free
Release:
The app will launch in Lebanon this month, and will be available in the UK within two months.
What is it and how is it of use to journalists?
Inspired by the Arab Spring, Signal is an app that assists and encourages citizen journalism by allowing users to create "mini stories" by capturing real-world events using cameras and geolocation.
The user community vote for these mini-stories to derive the top ones. The final result is an app that shows you the top stories of any country of the world, created and voted by the users in a decentralised, crowdsourced manner. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-44427" height="375" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43128&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="app2" width="250"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-44426" height="375" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43129&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="app-1" width="250">
At the moment, content creation is limited to photographs, but creator Mark Malkoun will be adding video in a future release. An Android version of the app is also in the pipeline.
Malkoun, a Lebanese entrepreneur, told Journalism.co.uk:
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