15. The method of claim 14 wherein said first instance of said first breaking news story is determined by analyzing a temporal rank of said story relative to other stories from set of reference content sources that contain content for said first event.
14. A method of presenting news content to a user with a computing system within a graphical interface comprising: a) determining a first user geographic region associated with the user; b) identifying a first breaking news story containing content for a first event; wherein said first breaking news story is determined by the computing system to be a first instance of an electronic publication of content for said first event from a set of reference content sources; c) automatically determining a target region associated with said first event by analyzing content of said first breaking news story; d) determining if said first event in said target geographic region is related to said first user geographic region; e) automatically selecting one or more local sources with the computing system to collect local content for stories associated with said first event; wherein said one or more local sources include news sources within or proximate to said geographic region; f) automatically identifying story updates to said first event by examining content published electronically by said one or more local sources; wherein for said identifying step (f) said local content is given a news rank higher than rankings of content from other content sources at least for identifying story updates associated with said first event to be presented to the user for said first user geographic region within the graphical interface.