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Anybody who has watched local TV news understands the tedium. Wading through the litany of car crashes and murders just to get a few minutes of local things you want to know, whether it’s sports or weather, isn’t efficient consumption. Newspapers and online local publications have similar hurdles. Checking local news is generally a passive experience [...]

Pictures are the new content. The mission of the City Pictures Project is to curate the most interesting photographers, amateur and professional, and aggregate their daily pictures into a portfolio of “Breaking Photos” for every city. If you post your local pictures via Twitter, let us know so we can add your photos.

Rebelmouse, the creation of Paul Berry, ex-CTO of the Huffington Post, curates articles from the tweets, retweets and links from Twitter and Facebook accounts and assembles them in the now popular Pinterest-tile format. Here are five reasons why the Rebelmouse publishing platform is perfect for local Breaking News in our 300+ cities. 1) Full leverage [...]

Welcome! The Breaking News Network is a national hyperlocal network in over 300 cities dedicated to community service and social media sourced news. Each city in our network is managed by locals. If you’re a business, civic group, arts organization or good cause, and you’re actively using Facebook to share your community news, events, initiatives, [...]

Hi, you’ve arrived here from clicking on one our Breaking News Twitter feeds. We’re pleased to help you deliver your messages to your community by retweeting your tweets simply by you adding the hashtag #cityname (in this case #albany)   First, read why it’s our community service mission is to get your tweets broadcast out [...]

Welcome! The Breaking News Network is a national hyperlocal network in over 300 cities dedicated to community service and social media sourced news. Each city in our network is managed by locals. If you’re a business, civic group, arts organization or good cause, and you’re actively using Twitter to share your community news, events, initiatives, [...]