Ever Wanted To Become A News Reporter?

The ‘Social News Network’!

They have great significance in our lives. Every day we wake up and look for them, to keep ourselves updated with what is happening around the world. We want to get the latest headlines, and simultaneously, we want to catch up with existing events, as they unfold. There are many mediums which are NOW available to us for getting news. Some, watch News broadcasts on our televisions. Others, rely on newspapers, and magazines for the purpose, while many others use their devices to get news online. Although the mediums of gaining top news are diverse, there's isn't really any diversity at all when it comes to their source. More or less all news networks gather their news from reporters, after which the news are edited and shaped according to the preferences of each network, and then brought to us, in a manner, the networks believe we’d like to see them.

In this editing process, they often add or hide information to make it a more 'sellable' to their audiences. The final product we get is often modified, and far away from the actual TRUTH.

So what should we do about it?

Since forever, there wasn’t anything, any of us could have done. But thanks to technology, we can now make a change. How? By becoming news reporters ourselves. This may sound funny but a new startup that goes by the name, 'alwire', brings to us an amazing concept, making every one of us a news reporter. This new system allows you to post top headlines or news as you witness them happening around you. The cool thing about 'alwire' is that it ties every news article, with an address, letting you find, virtually, latest news about any area as long as other users are posting about it.

Yet another awesome feature is what they call 'My neighborhood'. This feature allows you to add your local address, for example, your home address, your parent's home address, or your office address, as your neighborhood, and ‘alwire’ starts notifying you of events posted in those locations. You can add up to 5 such addresses in alwire as ‘My neighborhood’.

Although the idea of 'real time reporters' is great but how would we know if the news being posted are credible when ANYONE can post them. Luckily, the folks at 'alwire' thought about that too. 'alwire' allows you to mark news as ‘credible’ or ‘not-credible’. Furthermore, it uses its algorithm to calculate the credibility of the news using your confirmations, and then rates them from 0% to 100%.

'alwire' enables you to add updates to existing stories as they unravel. Just like the actual occurrences, updates are also given a credibility rating. The system also allows you to upload pictures and videos of the events along with your posts and updates. And yes, you can do all this from the convenience of your mobile app. Currently they only have an IOS app but we’ve heard that their Android app is coming soon as well, do “Stay tuned”…

We are not sure how far 'alwire' will go but it certainly seems like an interesting concept, and something that promises to fill the gap we have in our news systems.