Technician, along with its five sibling organizations within Student Media, just launched its first mobile app for iOS and Android users today. After reading this column, go to the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, search N.C. State Student Media and download our free app. 

The Student Media app includes Technician and Nubian Message news coverage, a live stream option for WKNC 88.1. It also includes updates from the Agromeck yearbook, the Windhover literary magazine and Wolf TV, our multimedia outlet.

Just like all our products at Student Media, this app is completely homemade. Doug Flowers, our own technology support analyst, has painstakingly developed this app from scratch over the past year. Atta boy, Mr. Flowers.

As the media landscape and consumer habits change, Technician and its partners are adapting to reach as many people as possible. 

Keep reading our print copies, keep viewing our website, but take the time to check us out with this mobile app. When breaking campus news happens, we’ll be able to alert you with push notifications on the fly. But don’t forget to get the stream of news on our Twitter and Facebook pages. 

I must say, if you are following us that closely, you might as well work for Student Media. We’ll bring you up to speed, we’ll entertain you and we’ll most certainly pay you a little bit. If you’d like to be involved in broadening Technician’s news coverage, or if you have any problems with our new mobile app, drop me a line at editor@technicianonline.com. And I’ll make it easy for you there’s an app for that.