The BuzzFeed News app has sent its final notification. Amid growing cost cuts and newsroom turmoil, the company announced late Friday that it was shuttering the app. “Well, folks, today’s the last day of the BuzzFeed News app. Thanks for the memories and see y’all out there,” the message read.
Spectrum Networks has launched its first digital-only local news platform in a non-Spectrum News linear TV market, bringing Spectrum’s style of local reporting and community-based journalism exclusively to its video […]
Capitol Broadcasting’s NBC affiliate in Raleigh, N.C. (DMA 27) today announced that its WRAL News app, “the first mobile app from a local U.S. TV station, has been completely rebuilt […]
The Reuters Institute’s annual report on digital news contains some surprises. More young Americans are paying for news.
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Apple’s new News app will launch as part of a free software upgrade to iPhones and iPads later this month. Here’s a rundown of what’s known so far about the free app’s content, functionality and privacy, along with how participating publishers will be making money from it.
WRAL Unveils Redesigned News App
Capitol Broadcasting’s Raleigh, N.C., CBS affiliate loads its flagship app for Android and iPhone with new and expanded local news, weather, sports and politics features.
News app Watchup has raised $2.7 million in a new round of funding, led by Tribune Media and with participation from the McClatchy Co. Adriano Farano, Watchup’s co-founder and CEO, says the funding round signals a move to include more local video content in the app, which aggregates online videos that can be pieced together into customized newscasts for its users.
Publishers, in particular broadcasters and newspapers, were quick in releasing apps for the first-generation iPhone and Android handsets, but 2012 was remarkable for the number of great mobile apps that were developed to disrupt news consumption.
Aggregator Lets Users Be News Director
Taptu lets users select from more than 200,000 news streams — ranging from coverage of presidential politics to cuddly kittens — and use its mixing board-like interface to “DJ the news.”
WGN Chicago Launches Smart TV Apps, Site
Viewers of the Tribune CW affiliate can now go to googletv.wgntv.com to watch the latest news and weather streaming 24/7 on their televisions, phones or just about any device. The SmartTV site is also available as an app in the Google Play store for Android devices.
The app genie is out of the bottle. Local news organizations have passed the stage of merely having an app and are moving on to the tricky challenge of monetizing those apps, and to do that, they will have to build on the momentum of local mobile search, unlock the power of geolocation and push for better app metrics.
With the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor having begun just this morning, Fox’s 99-cent app today ranked No. 1 among paid news apps on the Apple store. In addition to live coverage from the courtroom, the app provides daily highlights, expert analysis, commentary and timelines. The content is being produced by KTTV, the Fox O&O in Los Angeles.
News Apps Top iPad Users To-Do Lists
IPad users spend the longest periods of time reading news, according to a new study by analytics software provider Localytics. Compared to the overall average session length for iPad users, apps in the news category clocked in with sessions two-and-a-half times longer.
LSN Mobile, which owns and operates the nation’s largest mobile news network, reports that its local news app for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry has been downloaded more than 5 million […]
