News Corp’s painfully named news aggregator promised to somehow battle “crass clickbait,” filter bubbles, media bias, and two trillion-dollar companies, all at once. It ended up being a D-minus Drudge clone and OnlyFans blog.
“The point is they have personality. They have character. They’re engaging, and they have really inside stuff. So, they’re more than newsletters. They are mini-brands that have events and forums around them — but the newsletter is almost the spearhead.”
“In an era in which trust in news is fractured and employment is precarious, we need to look more closely at the ways that journalists’ sense of their own professional value — or lack thereof — influences the work they do and the environment in which they do it.”
The Axel Springer-owned app gets an automatic leg up across Europe from being pre-installed on new Samsung phones, but can it now keep enough of those users interested in order to sustain itself on advertising alone?
Wang, Shan. "News aggregator Upday, a sort of Apple News counterpart for Android, expands into 16 countries." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 28 Apr. 2017. Web. 10 Feb. 2025.
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Wang, S. (2017, Apr. 28). News aggregator Upday, a sort of Apple News counterpart for Android, expands into 16 countries. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved February 10, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/04/news-aggregator-upday-a-sort-of-apple-news-counterpart-for-android-expands-into-16-countries/
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