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Meporter is a citizen journalist mobile phone application that uses geolocation and multimedia to create hyperlocal, real-time news. It allows users to post news with headlines, text, videos, and images using their smartphone to the Meporter database and to the Meporter website. Once logged into Meporter, the user can select to have the story pinpointed on a map, which finds their location by GPS. When the story is uploaded, it is viewable by other meporters via their smartphone or the Meporter website. Meporters can also check into the story as an eyewitness and update it with more text, pics and videos. The name itself is a combination of the words “Me” and “Reporter.”
Meporters can select a standard news category for their story, including crime, business, nightlife, entertainment and others. Once a user starts posting stories they earn “Press Passes,” that are similar to Foursquare Badges, which can occasionally be exchanged for prizes.