User-generated content is rife with risk and opportunity.
The opportunity for it to deliver remarkable images is made clear on an almost-daily basis, be it in the midst of a crisis like the Boston Marathon bombings, Hurricane Sandy, or simply … Read more
Deep Nishar, LinkedIn senior vice president of product and user experience, announced the move on the site Thursday, praising Pulse founders Ankit Gupta and Akshay Kothari and giving some insight on LinkedIn's plans for the mobile news aggregator.
We believe LinkedIn can be the definitive professional publishing platform – where all professionals come to consume content and where publishers come to share their content. Millions of professionals are already starting their day on LinkedIn to glean the professional insights and knowledge they need to make them great at their jobs. We believe we can help all professionals make smarter and more informed business decisions leveraging all the great business knowledge flowing through LinkedIn in the form of news, Influencer posts, industry updates, discussions, comments and more.
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A newspaper section is coming to the Google Play store for Android-powered mobile devices, according to a report by Android Police. Google Play News would join the store's existing marketplaces for apps, magazines, books, movies and music.
The scoop is based on Android Police noticing some hints in the JavaScript code that runs the Play store, with various messages for users to purchase "issues" or "subscriptions" of news "editions."
It could become an important market for news publishers, as Android-powered tablets surpass iPads in market share. Publishers have been able to sell subscriptions within their Android apps for nearly a year now, but having a special storefront for news in the Play store could help drive readers that way.
But this news app market will face some significant hurdles.
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A mobile app that will help amateur journalists send photos to news organizations securely and with embedded verification data is among eight projects funded by the latest Knight News Challenge grants.
"Clearly the spread of citizen-generated, amateur-driven content is here to stay. But we still have not developed the mechanisms and tools for understanding that content, verifying that content, feeling comfortable about using that content," Knight Foundation Director of Journalism and Media Innovation John Bracken told me.
The Knight-funded solution is an Android app called InformaCam -- to be built by mobile security specialists at The Guardian Project and human rights advocates at Witness. (more...)
The study found 33 percent of those young adults got news from social networks the day before, while 34 percent watched TV news and just 13 percent read print or digital newspaper content.
Overall, the study says, the major trends driving the growth and change of digital news are social media, as well as the rapid adoption of mobile Internet devices.
The top-level trends in social media news consumption:
19 percent of all Americans got news from a social network like Facebook, Google+ or LinkedIn yesterday (up from 9 percent in 2010).
Among people using social networks, 36 percent got news there yesterday (up from 19 percent in 2010).
Overall use of social media for news consumption is growing, and the rates are similar across three age groups from 18 to 39.
Last December, the nonprofit news magazine about the American West sent an unusually honest press release about its new digital subscription plan and iPhone app. The news release quoted reader feedback that the new product "sucks," and admission that the publication "turned to highly underpaid coders" to build the iPhone app. But hey, it's a start.
Now HCN is out with its first iPad app, accompanied by this mockumentary about readers picketing the office with slogans like: "HCN is full of crap; we deserve an iPad app!"
Time to hit the app stores, politics junkies. As the party conventions and fall election season arrive, a bunch of new mobile applications are launching that help users get the latest news, engage in conversation, fact-check claims … Read more
