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Local coverage has been an important part of journalism for some years and now even more when we need more voices to be heard. And with social media apps like Facebook also going into localized news and content, they will most likely have to catch up and market this more heavily to get more eyeballs for the news app directly. There are only 1,000 cities covered for now so most likely not every major city is included.īut Flipboard says that if the city you’re in isn’t currently represented, you can tweet them This means they’re working on adding more cities in the future. For the larger metro cities, there are also subsections for video content and topics like Sports, Politics, Business, and Things To Do. This localized news will be updated throughout the day. You will of course have to allow Flipboard to access your location so it will be able to suggest local topics, including those from the nearest cities and towns. You can just quickly access these on your news tabs and the stories and videos from local publishers, blogs, and TV stations will also be seen on the For You Feed. You can choose one or two locations to follow and news that’s tagged for this place will be added to your Following tab. Once you update your Flipboard app to the latest version and you open it, you’ll be asked for your location.

Flipboard is one of the more popular news aggregation apps out there and with its latest update, it will now bring you more focused content for specific locations on your app so it will be easier for you to find more relevant, localized news. But sometimes, you also need to know more about localized news in the city you live in.

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