Mobile Media: News about mobile & its applications & implications for media. Written by Jeff Sonderman with contributions from Regina McCombs. Suggest a story.
A year ago today Rupert Murdoch stood on a stage at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and unveiled the first “newspaper” built exclusively for the iPad — The Daily.
The News Corp. CEO set a high bar. He said… Read more
The essential role of an aggregator is to make choices for readers, usually about which topics, sources or issues are worth paying attention to. A new aggregation and reading app launching Wednesday for the iPad holds a different standard —… Read more
The average person looking at a smartphone screen right now is more likely to come across news from your organization through a Facebook or Twitter app than through your own news app.
Recent studies of mobile and tablet audience behaviors… Read more
Nielsen Wire
One-third of tablet and smartphone owners in a Nielsen survey said they had downloaded a news app within the past 30 days, and 19 percent had paid for one. The chart below shows survey results for news and… Read more
Barnes & Noble is exploring whether to spin off or sell its Nook e-book and e-reader business line, according to paidContent and others.
What would that mean? It would separate the fast-growing Nook business (up about 70 percent annually… Read more
Mornings like this one have always been a problem for newspapers. When the Iowa caucuses results — or other late news — breaks on or after the print deadline, most front pages feature an inconclusive story.
That’s an unavoidable… Read more
TechCrunch | All Things D
Apple is planning a “media-related” announcement later this month in New York, Kara Swisher writes. Alexia Tsotsis confirms the report and says the event will “unveil improvements to the iBooks platform” and attendance will… Read more
CNET
Until today, people with iPads or iPhones could use Amazon’s Kindle app only to read e-books. But a newly released version 2.9 of the app adds access to the over 400 magazines and newspapers that are available on… Read more
What should we know about the way storytelling and news is presented on tablets?
In 1990, Poynter tested how people read news in print. In 2000 and 2003, we tested how people read news online. Then, we dove into