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As Android tablets grow, publishers struggle to match the iPad experience

Sam Kirkland — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:21:26 +0000

When the IDC forecast this month that Google’s Android operating system would soon surpass Apple’s iOS in tablet market share, publishers of digital magazines could be excused for some handwringing.

Since 2010, Apple’s dominance of the market allowed publishers to … Read more

How Flipboard just created 50 million magazine editors

Jeff Sonderman — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:10:28 +0000

Inside Flipboard | All Things D | Giga Om
If you wanted to draw up a plan for drastically remaking the landscape of mobile news discovery, it might look something like this: 1) Release a beautiful news aggregating app that … Read more

Google prepares a mobile marketplace for news content

Jeff Sonderman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:53:33 +0000

Android Police | The Next Web | Read Write
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 … Read more

New studies offer 5 ways publishers can capitalize on mobile trends now

Tom Rosenstiel — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:36:07 +0000

As Cory Bergman explored in a thoughtful piece here last month, mobile connectivity– people linked to the Web via smart phones and tablets — is poised to thoroughly disrupt news all over again.

News publishers must deeply understand the contours … Read more

Tablet storytelling is visual, tappable, deep

Sara Quinn and Karen Dunlap — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:00:17 +0000

Three years after Apple and others put digital tablets firmly into the hands of consumers, what do we really know about the way the devices are used for news?

Hundreds of people filed in to a large ballroom at South … Read more

How the Seattle Times made an iPad book from its best photos of the year

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:53:14 +0000

Seattle Times | iTunes
At the end of each year, The Seattle Times chooses its Pictures of the Year to feature in online galleries and its weekly print magazine.

This year it added something new — a $2.99 e-book for … Read more

Pew: Men, highly educated are more engaged with news on mobile devices

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:48:24 +0000

Pew
“In the growing realm of mobile news, men and the more highly educated emerge as more engaged news consumers,” says a new report on the demographics of mobile news from the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The report continues:… Read more

Charts: 5 mobile trends to watch

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:36:19 +0000

Mary Meeker delivered an updated version of her Internet trends report this week at Stanford University, full of charts and data about where our digital world is heading.

News folks will want to take note of what the partner at … Read more

What journalists should know about the new iPad mini

Jeff Sonderman — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:07:07 +0000

Of all the mobile devices launched in recent years, the iPad has been the most promising for the journalism business.

iPad owners are more likely than others to use the devices to keep up with news, and compared to … Read more

One-third of people under 40 used the Internet to follow the presidential debate

Jeff Sonderman — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:47:04 +0000

Pew Research Center
Presidential debate watching is still primarily a television event, but many Americans are also using digital devices simultaneously to get more information or reaction, according to a new Pew poll released Thursday.

The poll focused on which … Read more