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Articles tagged news apps (67)

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 3, 2019

Young people may download news apps, but they spend very little time with them

“No news app (with the exception of Reddit) was within the top 25 apps used by respondents.”

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 28, 2019

“We realized Spotify for news was exactly the wrong thing to do.” Here’s what Kinzen is doing instead

“We can give more power to the user to tell the publisher what they really want.”

Shan WangAugust 22, 2018

We’re getting closer to the day when news apps and interactives can be easily preserved in perpetuity

Well, maybe not easily, but an NYU team is building a tool to save the entirety of a news app (including underlying libraries and frameworks), as well as a digital repository to hold them for future audiences.

Ricardo BiltonMarch 1, 2018

An AI editor and story summaries are helping Compass News become a go-to app for non-news junkies

“If you go to any news site, at least half the headlines require a huge amount of assumed knowledge. Thats fine if you’re a journalist who spends a lot of time reading the news but it’s not if you are an average person who checks the news once a day for five minutes. We’re building for that second group.”

Shan WangSeptember 28, 2017

The internet isn’t forever. Is there an effective way to preserve great online interactives and news apps?

“I like to talk about it as reading today’s news on tomorrow’s computer.”

Verizon shows Yahoo News Digest, a finite news app, the door

Shan WangApril 28, 2017

News aggregator Upday, a sort of Apple News counterpart for Android, expands into 16 countries

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?

Shan WangApril 28, 2017

Contraponto do Apple News para Android se espalha por 16 países da Europa

Aparelhos Samsung S7 e S8 virão com o Upday já instalado. Agregador de conteúdo fornece audiência para publicadores. Desafio é conseguir se viabilizar com dinheiro de publicidade.

Ricardo BiltonNovember 7, 2016

After a slow start, Apple News is emerging as a significant traffic driver for some news orgs

The traffic picture is improving for publishers on Apple News, but news organizations still have some big hangups when it comes to measurement and monetization.

The New York Times is shutting down its lauded, younger-reader-seeking NYT Now app

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