What if local newsrooms beyond NPR stations could record weekly or daily five minute briefings that could be delivered via the Echo, through Siri and others? Local information is already starting to come to the Echo — Amazon recently started letting people get info on local businesses with Yelp and offers sports updates and local traffic info too.
How Amazon’s Echo Has Changed The Way I Get My News
Josh Stearns
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This seems like a really key opportunity for local newsrooms of all kinds. How great would it be if a hyperlocal could get looped in to Echo?