{"id":3336,"date":"2014-05-06T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2014-05-06T22:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T03:00:13","slug":"sun-times-joins-rivet-news-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/05\/06\/sun-times-joins-rivet-news-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun-Times joins Rivet News Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RIvet\"<\/a><\/a>Chicago-based startup\u00a0Rivet News Radio,<\/a> the mobile app designed to deliver personalized local, national and world news along with traffic and weather to smartphone users, just added content from the Sun-Times<\/a> to its playlist.<\/p>\n

The agreement between the Sun-Times and Rivet News Radio\u2019s parent company, HearHere Radio Inc., marks the latest content partnership for the fledgling news service. Other contributors include Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5 (featuring Jerome McDonnell\u2019s \u201cWorldview\u201d), Crain\u2019s Chicago Business and the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited to connect our news stories with the future of content-delivery in mobile,\u201d Sun-Times publisher and editor-in-chief Jim Kirk said in a statement. \u201cThis partnership allows the Sun-Times to meet the demands of our listeners by staying ahead of the technology curve and giving them a brand new way to get their news, on their time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rivet News Radio app is available free<\/a> for the iPhone.<\/p>\n

News of the Sun-Times content agreement comes just days after HearHere Radio won a Peter Lisagor Award for Best Online Start-Up. It was one of two Lisagors for Rivet News Radio in its first year from the Chicago Headline Club.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be recognized for our journalism at such an early stage,\u201d HearHere Radio CEO John MacLeod said in a statement. \u201cOur team\u2019s been working extremely hard to bring journalistic excellence to smartphone listeners and it\u2019s great to see them honored by the Headline Club.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago-based startup\u00a0Rivet News Radio, the mobile app designed to deliver personalized local, national and world news along with traffic and weather to smartphone users, just added content from the Sun-Times to its playlist. The agreement between the Sun-Times and Rivet News Radio\u2019s parent company, HearHere Radio Inc., marks the latest content partnership for the fledgling... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}