The Economist - News, Podcasts

The Economist - News, Podcasts

By The Economist

  • Category: News
  • Release Date: 2018-05-03
  • Current Version: 4.26.0
  • Adult Rating: 12+
  • File Size: 69.29 MB
  • Developer: The Economist
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 16.0
Score: 4.86953
4.86953
From 147,477 Ratings

Description

The Economist news app offers fact checked, data driven, unbiased journalism covering daily news. Choose from a variety of news topics: Politics, Business, Technology, Science and more. Find thorough reporting, analysis and informed opinion from our correspondents around the world. Download The Economist news app today and join the people who know. Key subscriber benefits - Full access to The Economist app and economist.com - global and local news updated daily - The World in Brief - a faster way to understand the stories behind the news - Economist Podcasts+ - award-winning, noise-cancelling podcasts on a variety of global issues and news events - Weekly edition - read online, listen to narrated articles or download to enjoy offline - Audio queue to create a custom listening list of the news - Bookmarks to save articles to read later - Easy reading with adjustable text size and dark mode Full terms of use can be found at https://www.economist.com/legal/terms-of-use Our privacy policy can be found at https://www.economist.com/privacy

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Reviews

  • The Best Journalism

    5
    By Andrew W
    This app is home to the best journalism in the world. If I could only afford to pay for one news source, The Economist would be that source.

  • Please bring back “legacy app”

    1
    By Kenfoster1987
    The experience of selecting a queue of articles in the “new” app is so broken that I am considering dropping my subscription, which I would have thought unfathomable until recently since the content is among the world’s greatest periodicals. But I can’t no longer create an article list and use forward/back to navigate it in the car or while working out. The “state” of articles in the queue gets lost and replaced with a generic order from weekly. Maddening

  • Forced to use an inferior app and pay more

    1
    By Adonis St.
    I resisted switching over to the new app, because of the inferior look and feel. Now I am forced to use the new app because the old, better app was retired. I am not sure what genius came up with this idea but I suspect that people that like the look and feel of a paper economist will miss the old app and quit their subscriptions. That’s certainly where I am heading! Outside the fact that I don’t like an app is designed for people with attention deficit disorder, it forces me to deal with the incompetence I experienced in the management of my prior subscription where the economist was charging me twice for the same subscription for a period of 6 months. My advice to the economist is to reverse access of the economist through iTunes before this wonderful newspaper goes the way of the Dodo bird!

  • Great app, excellent journalism!

    5
    By RAS&3
    The Economist is wonderful. The content is interesting and relevant and the reporting is superlative. Equally impressive is the drive to stay relevant by presenting media in multiple formats from print to podcasts and short videos.

  • A great legacy app, but this new one garbage

    1
    By jtqxr
    I put off downloading the “improved” app as long as I could. This week’s issue, however, no longer has an audio option in the legacy app. The new app is unfortunately an absolutely horrendous mess. Much more like a typical website than a magazine or newspaper, every article is cluttered with superfluous links and with suggestions for “related” articles or sites. Worst of all, to swipe from one article to the next, one needs to swipe twice because every article—EVERY SINGLE ONE—is followed by an ad. HALF the issue is ads. Unbelievable! So I have deleted the “improved” app and will continue with the legacy app (sadly with no audio option) until The Economist no longer supports it, then I will unsubscribe. After having subscribed in print or digitally for four decades, I believe. I can’t justify over two hundred dollars a year to read the magazine on such a supremely annoying, ad-stuffed app.

  • Missing feature — download editions

    1
    By Nlecuyer
    There used to be a great feature to download entire editions. I used this all the time, to download a full weekly edition prior to a plane flight (and then, read the issue on the plane). Now that feature is gone. Very disappointed — if I don’t see it return soon I may cancel. Guys, flights are my prime time for reading and you broke this!

  • Great newspaper, mediocre app

    3
    By Algonquin esquimaux
    I see no improvement from the legacy app.

  • Hard-to-Manage Audio Playlist

    3
    By D_rifting C_louds
    My weekly routine is to download selected articles in audio playlist so that I can listen to while exercising. I have the habit of organising the sequence in the list in accordance with my section preference. At times, I would like to check back at the history of articles that have all been played. All the above routines can be easily accomplished in the old app, but not the current. Please may I request the features be built into the current app, now that the old app is to be discontinued?

  • Good app, needs some polish

    3
    By Jrp95
    The app doesn’t remember your place in an article if you switch to another app and come back later. Bookmarks don’t sync from iPad to iPhone. The app privacy card is disappointing. A lot of data is collected on paying customers. That said the audio experience is fantastic and a class above any peer news app.

  • “Listen to this story” feature

    2
    By Ritz Crackers1997
    I need a button that links to the original article page from the “Listen to this story” page. Sometimes I change my mind and switch to reading.

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