## 1 Introduction  
What would it be like if news stories constantly changed depending on the reader's physical location? With a built-in GPS in the smartphone, it is now a possibility to adapt news content to the user's changing physical as well as social context. Mobile phones are used as very personal devices and users could demand news designed to cater to their personal interests. One way to meet this demand might be to take account for the readers' location in the selection of relevant news articles to adjust news stories to specific location while at the same time allowing for continuous change in order to compensate for relocation through geographical environment. What kinds of experiences will this kind of journalism generate, and how may context intervene? And does this change the readers' social interaction with news? This article assumes that the emergence of mobile technology will change journalistic content and its use. The project of exploring the user's experiences within this form of journalism is investigated as part of a larger pilot study which consists of several field studies. The empirical results gathered from this field study focuses on experiences of users reading location-dependent news through a mobile application designed specifically to this project. The works of [PERSON] and his co-fellows in early 20 th century provide and seek a practical everyday view on communication philosophy and suggests approaches for exploring journalism. [PERSON] (2003) draws upon the parallels between the rise of the metropolis as technology which led to a renaissance in American Sociology, and the rise of the Internet by suggesting that following the lead of [PERSON], the Internet can have a similar effect on the study of communication [1]. For [PERSON] data contextual approach in neighborhoods was a result of his earliest conception of sociology in order to become a superreporter (pp. 90-91, [2]). This contextual view is shared by [PERSON] and both thought that one can do more than just reading news by importing meaning from the surrounding context. This article shares these views and sets the stage for the contextual approach to locative journalism and the city as a \"laboratory\" to make such an explorative research approach possible. With a technical and editorial staff of 13 people, we produced an especially designed mobile application and tailored news stories specific to this project called _LocaNews_. The design of the mobile application can be considered explorative since this form of journalism is none-existing and its purpose is not the application of its results to the reality that belongs to the realm of practice. The mobile application is solely designed by researchers with the purpose to see if this works and to examine its use. The result in this article was generated by participating observation and a questionnaire of 32 people (average age 29) during a sport festival in June 2009 to find out how they experienced the news content presented in this format. In the _LocaNews_ system, journalists created three different versions of any given geotagged news story. Each version receives its own geographical proximity zone, which determines what version the users can access or not, based on their physical position to the news (Figure 1). The news appears on the mobile application interface as _Here_ (0-100 m), _In the neighborhood_ (100-500 m) and _Voss at large_ (exceeding 500 m). One way to describe this tripartial system is that the news is \"zoomable\". Zoomable in a narrative sense means that one either moves towards a story or away from a story. Such \"zoomable news\" requires journalists to consider crucial aspects of the surroundings, such as topography, architecture, human behavior and infrastructure, all of which will impact the shaping of the journalistic texts and affect and alter the relationship between the reader and her/his surroundings.