Per Rebecca's write-up, our goal was to create a digital prototype for a local news aggregator combining "citizen journalism" with more established news articles.
Here is a .zip of the Xcode project: Download file
Planned functionality that didn't make it in:
Ability to switch main view between articles and citizen sources
Color of UITableCell's to denote source (I settled w/ changing the text color)
Rolling text of alternate main view at bottom of main view
Detail view of a source just Google's the source's title (no real links)
Additionally functionality that would've been nice for the digital prototype:
Text that isn't hard-coded into an array but drawn from a webpage's content
Secondary line of text with different formatting (primary line would be first line of content, with second line being source)
After creating this prototype, the biggest addition needed was not foreseen in the write-up--how a user adds and manages the content received. There needs to be some way to rate feeds and individual pieces of content, as well as a way to connect stories together under one topic. Otherwise, a site manager or algorithm (?) would be responsible for parsing all of the data, which drops the site back into the moors of managed news content that we were trying to escape.
Taking this into consideration, I realized we'd need a back end to either host user content or at least a database of ratings and connections for the content out there (or a combination of the two). It almost seems worth making a website like this first and then porting it to the iPhone down the line.