Introducing the West Seattle Herald for iPad
Introducing the West Seattle Herald for iPad
The stories from the West Seattle Herald are presented in a tiled format in the new iPad app available through iTunes. When selected each story expands to reveal the story. Readers can then step to the next or previous story. Stories without photos appear as headlines. The app also gives you access to the Herald's YouTube video library, Flickr gallery and permits readers to submit news through the app after registering.
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West Seattle Herald
Wed, 03/09/2011
Robinson Communications and The West Seattle Herald announce a new iPad app that brings local news to this new publishing platform.
Developed by Sachmanya LLC in Santa Clara, California, the new app utilizes a tiled structure that allows the reader to instantly scan for the most recent local news as posted on WestSeattleHerald.com but also provides direct access to the Herald's Flickr Photo Gallery and the Herald's YouTube videos.
This app joins the existing iPhone app for the Herald as well as a new iPad app for one of Robinson Communications sister publications, the Ballard News-Tribune. Both the iPhone apps have also been updated with new graphic structures.
What makes both apps truly unique however is the ability to capture news events with your mobile device to submit for publication through the app itself. Utilizing a service called 360 News registered users can submit photos, videos, and local stories to the Herald for publication. Submissions are reviewed and then posted on the site but may also appear on CNN iReport, YouTube, Flickr Twitter and 360 News. Users can see where 360News posts come from on a map and engage with other community members.
"The iPad is really the first tool to combine the best of what print publications offer in terms of image size and in depth stories with the speed and flexibility of the internet. We've been pioneers since the 1950's so this is in our DNA," said Patrick Robinson, Herald Web Editor for Robinson Communications. "We were the first to bring a web offset press west of the Mississippi in 1958, among the first to use FAX machines in the 70's, in the vanguard of users of Optical Character Recognition systems for print production and the first to have an all digital video production facility in the mid 1980's."
Further updates are in the works with Facebook integration and a more streamlined news submission process for readers to be added in the near future.
To download the free West Seattle Herald application for iPad visit the itunes page here.
The iPhone app is available through iTunes here.
An Android version is available as well by searching for West Seattle Herald in the Android Market.
