Local news takes flight in South Dakota’s largest city

Here’s a fun one. Did you know Paul Reuter, who would go on to found Reuters, initially used pigeons to fly stock prices and other bits of news between Aachen and Brussels?

In South Dakota, Pigeon 605 — a year-old sister site to SiouxFalls.Business — is delivering personalized local news with a modern-day fleet … minus the feathers. (The “605” refers to the area code that serves the entire state.) In a city that just crested 200,000 residents, more than 4,000 people have picked a virtual pigeon to deliver news based on their interests and neighborhood.

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