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# Could Local Newspapers Make Money From Snow?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2010/01/snow_journalism_apps_iphone_travel/
- Published: 2010-01-12T17:51:06.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:44:40.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: apps, iPhone, Local News, Publishing, snow, travel, weather

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Laura has a thoughtful post up on her blog on the sort of\[ app she’d pay for around a weather event like last week’s snow:\](http://pebbledash.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/what-i-would-pay-for-from-local-newspapers/) \> 

For me it would be mobile + reliable travel news. I would happily pay to download an iPhone app from my local paper that has: reliable data on what services are running on the bus routes; which trains will be affected by the bad weather; and which parts of town aren’t worth attempting to walk through.

It’s an interesting idea, but I’m not sure I’d be as quick to purchase it. You see, I got pretty much all the travel information I needed during the period, just by having a few key searches saved in my Twitter application: lewisham, sutton, southeastern. By browsing the streams of tweets from these searches, I was quickly able to get a sense of the situation at both Sutton and Lewisham stations, and the practibility of getting to work by train. And I wasn’t the only one to feel that \[Twitter was enough\](http://thenextweb.com/uk/2010/01/07/twitter-shines-uksnow/).

Now, admittedly, during that period I had no meeting important enough that I had to be at a particular place at a particular time. And there was an amount (if small) of effort and knowledge needed to glean the information I did. Would there be enough people who needed the information Laura suggests, and who lack the time and inclination to discover it themselves?