Newsy.com's iPhone app's ranking rises
Posted by Emma Heald on October 16, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Newsy.com, an online video news service started in the spring in partnership with the Missouri School of Journalism, announced that its iPhone application is currently ranked number six on the list of free news apps in the iTunes app store, ahead of those of many traditional news organisations. "We're thrilled about Newsy's ascension up the list of free news apps - it's affirmation that Newsy.com is ahead of the trends for news and news delivery," said Newsy.com President Jim Spencer in a press release. The iPhone app has only been available from September 30. It is updated instantaneously with the website, and users can post comments or share videos via Twitter or Facebook.
Newsy describes itself as a news analyser rather than a news aggregator, producing videos that analyse the key differences in how a story is being reported by various news organizations. For example, a video on whether or not the Czech president will sign the Lisbon treaty used information from France 24, ITN, the New York Times, Al Jazeera and the Prague Daily Monitor. As the Internet makes reading news from multiple sources from around the world easier and easier, the public has become used to getting different sides of the same story. Newsy's effort to make this more convenient in video form is admirable, and the success of its iPhone app suggests that people particularly appreciate this in mobile form. Short video syntheses of major news stories do seem to make sense for people on the move.
Source: Newsy press release
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