METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GEOGRAPHICLLY BASED SOCIAL NEWS GATHERING AND REPORTING

摘要

Methods and systems for gathering and publishing news are described. Such methods and systems are geographically and social interactive based, and include assigning a beat, performing source development around these beats, defining a coverage map for monitoring the source, creating a coverage plan of the beat and the coverage map, receiving data from robots, where the robots monitor the sources within the coverage map and gather news data according to the coverage plan, using tools to analyze the data and create leads, screen the leads according to the coverage plan, write a journalistic story based on the screened leads; and publish the story. Publication is performed in an on-line medium.