{"id":12405,"date":"2018-11-28T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T00:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12405"},"modified":"2018-11-28T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T00:07:49","slug":"facebook-expands-local-news-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12405","title":{"rendered":"Facebook expands local news feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bullets_li\">Facebook (<a class=\"ticker-link\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/FB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FB<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: red;\">-1.7%<\/span>) is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2018\/11\/connecting-people-to-local-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ramping up its local focus<\/a>, expanding a new section called &#8220;Today In&#8221; that&#8217;s specialized for more than 400 U.S. cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bullets_li\">Tests of the feature began earlier this year as surveys indicated people wanting to see more content, including that typically understood as &#8220;local news&#8221; as well as community information for planning, including such things are road closures and bus schedules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bullets_li\">Now it&#8217;s testing the feature in &#8220;news deserts&#8221; with low supply of that information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bullets_li\">It&#8217;s also running a test with more than 100 local government and first responder Pages to help them get important information out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bullets_li\">Facebook also launched its first international test of &#8220;Today In,&#8221; in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook (FB\u00a0-1.7%) is\u00a0ramping up its local&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12406,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405\/revisions\/12406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}