The New York Times has partnered with Google to allow users to track news geographically through the Google Earth platform.

Users can search and track news by location (from country, state and city down to neighborhoods), as well as by section (Foreign, Travel, Sports...). Google Earth automatically adds stories to its database when these are uploaded to NYTimes.com and tagged with location names.

Each item showed on Google Earth includes headlines and ledes to the stories.

How do users activate this function? Said Wei Luo, Tech Lead Manager at Google Earth, on the Lat Long Blog:

"To experience this new way of getting your daily dose of news, launch the latest version of Google Earth and make sure the 'Geographic Web' folder is turned on.

"Click on a New York Times placemark and you will see the latest news and features pertaining to that geographic region. Want to see more than just headlines? Click on the "Show this layer" button at the top of the preview bubble and you'll get a list of news articles dating back one month."

Google Earth's NYT layer is updated every 15 minutes and includes articles from the last 30 days. This seems like yet another user-friendly and innovative way to deliver newspaper news outside of the traditional platforms.

Source: WebProNews through I Want Media