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ASU journalism school develops iPhone app for 'Arizona Guardian'

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Arizona State University and the Arizona Guardian news organization have developed an iPhone application that allows mobile users to identify a region’s elected officials based on the global positioning systems in their smart phones.

The free Arizona Political Directory application lets users search for their federal, state and county representatives. No matter where a user is in the state, the app will identify which elected officials represent that area. The app is searchable by office, district or name, and it provides links to the officials’ websites, short biographies and contact information.

ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s New Media Innovation Lab and the Guardian news website developed the application, which also allows for database searches of Arizona’s elected officials. They are developing the same app for Motorola’s Droid phone.

“Our hope is that voters will use the app to become more engaged more often with their elected officials,” said Guardian Publisher Bob Grossfeld. “We all felt very strongly that we would make the application available for free as a way of saying ‘thank you’ to everyone who has supported the Arizona Guardian over the past 18 months.”

Grossfeld did not say how much the Guardian paid ASU for the work.

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