While changing habits of media usage endanger traditional business models in media industries, big data and high technologies might lead to new opportunities to deal with the ongoing challenges (cf. Küng 2017). One aspect in new communication technology is the field of location based services (LBS). We take this field as an example to investigate on the adaption of so called “high technologies” in media enterprises, because this technology offers several ways of application, and it is already established in other industries like tourism (Mak, Nickerson & Sim, 2015) or retail (Schulten, Rudiger, & Stolz, 2015). When it comes to media industries, Nyre, Bjørnestad, Tessem, and Øie (2012) suppose a high potential of GPS-equipped phones – especially in local journalism. From their point of view the integration of LBS in mobile news apps might allow innovative forms of news production, aggregation, and presentation – that again might increase the value of communication measured by their recipients. This contribution is investigating whether and how media organizations include localization features in mobile news applications.