## 1 Introduction
These different proximity journalistic versions addresses differently to the reader in various ways since the journalist already knew the relative distance between the geotagged news and the reader [3]. Objects mentioned in the article are for example described in different manners, depending on if the reader can see the object, is within an acceptable walking distance from it, or is far away from the object. One story about a mountain bike competition called MTB can in the closest proximity version (0-100 m) start with \"Where you are standing right now the MTB finals starts at 17 p.m. (...), and the best place for spectators to follow the competition is right beneath the largest jump\". The article does not describe the MTB course further because the reader already stands at the course and can see it. The other two proximity versions of the same story may focus on how to get there, how big the course area is, famous MTB riders, _etc_. The user participants' responses are analyzed on the basis of the socio-cultural consequences in the place-based differences operative in this locative journalism by local, semi-local and non-local participants. The journalistic production of the news and the usability of the mobile application has recently been discussed in two other papers [4,5] and will not be discussed in this article. Location-based services (LBS) have been established for many users of smartphones and within the marketing industry. They can be found in services such as digital maps, real estate, Craigslist, Yellow Pages, location-based games and in social networks such as _Foursquare_, _Facebook Places_ and _Twitter_. These services represent the fastest growing market within Internet technology businesses (ABI Research in Sutko & de Souza e Silva [6]). PEW Internet studies from January 2011 showed that half of all Americans get some sort of local news on their cell phone or tablet [7]. The PEW report from September 2011 shows that 28% of Americans use mobile and social location based services which also include directions and recommendations [8]. Recently (May 13, 2011), Google announced their _News near you_ feature on Google News for mobile devices [9], but so far the news companies have not recognized the full potential of LBS. Google's _News near you_ feature and a few other applications can be characterized as location aware news services that sort and display news based on one's physical location. The _LocaNews_ is the first attempt within the LBS field that changes the current story based on the reader's location. In this article, locative news is conceived as a location-aware and location-dependent media application that contains journalistic content. Location-based services are currently generating a lot of  
Figure 1: An illustrative picture of the concept and how the different proximity zones correspond to the texts. The red dot in the middle illustrates the reader’s physical location. scholarly attention paid to at the moment. In journalism, most of this interest is related to hyperlocal news, as in bloggers or citizen/participatory journalism [10; 11; 12]. There is also a large research interest within the field of location-based (mobile) social networks and games [6; 13; 14; 15]. My focus, however, is based on how newsroom journalism in its traditional gatekeeper function can be presented in the context of a location-aware system for mobile phones and to explore the participant's experiences of this journalism. In opposition to the common meanings attached to the concept of hyperlocal news, which can be considered location-oriented, this system is location-aware or location-dependent in physical terms. The story changes and varies according to where the reader moves in relation to the geotagged news story. This makes the _LocaNews_ system different to other media design project. It is necessary to stress that _LocaNews_ is purely an analytic explorative project and does not seek to make a system sustainable for the market industry.