Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Your guide to the BBC News iPad application – BBC News

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    Your guide to the BBC News iPad application – BBC News

    “The BBC Trust is reviewing the BBC smartphone apps in the UK – does this affect the US iPad app?

    The BBC Trust has announced a review of the BBC’s plans to deliver content via dedicated smartphone apps. The BBC will therefore not be launching public service news and sports apps for smartphones in the UK pending the outcome of the Trust review.

    However, the US iPad app is a commercial activity outside the UK and is not covered by the Trust review. It has been released in the Apple store in the US by BBC Worldwide, the main commercial arm and wholly owned subsidiary of the BBC. BBC Worldwide’s mission is to create, acquire, develop and exploit media content and brands around the world in order to maximise the value of BBC’s assets for the benefit of the UK licence fee payer.”

    via: http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-bbc-ipad-app-popular-in-u.s.-but-brits-may-be-denied/

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I’ll stop Google taking our news for nothing, says defiant Rupert Murdoch – guardian.co.uk

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Introducing the Guardian Eyewitness app for iPad – guardian.co.uk

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    Introducing the Guardian Eyewitness app for iPad – guardian.co.uk

    "Our intention is to mark the launch of a highly tactile, visual device with a product that delivers a photographic feast, featuring the world's most distinctive visual content, as curated by our award-winning photographic team.

    The Eyewitness series was launched in print at the time of the Guardian's switch to the Berliner format in 2005, and consists of a daily full-colour, double-page spread devoted to the most compelling news photography. The decision to dedicate so much space to a single picture was a revolutionary move for a newspaper.

    Roger Tooth, describes the philosophy behind the series as one that is devoted entirely to showcasing the world's best photos in superb detail: "We want to hold your attention for more than two seconds … we want you to appreciate the work that the photographer has put into the image," he says. "We've been waiting for a chance to replicate the scale and impact of the newspaper's Eyewitness spread series on the web – and I think this is it.""

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iPad apps: news and magazines – Engadget

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    iPad apps: news and magazines – Engadget

    "Apple's done a pretty good job convincing the old media that the iPad will save their industry, so we've taken our time trying out the launch titles in the App Store — it's plain to see that different publishers have radically different ideas about how you're supposed to buy and consume their content, and everything from pricing to UI is currently up in the air. But while the apps we've seen so far are definitely intriguing, we haven't seen any silver bullets yet — and to be perfectly honest, in several cases we wondered why an app was preferable to an iPad-optimized web site, or even (gasp) a paper subscription. Let's run down the launch lineup, shall we?"

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