The Economist - News, Podcasts

The Economist - News, Podcasts

By The Economist

  • Category: News
  • Release Date: 2018-05-03
  • Current Version: 4.65.0
  • Adult Rating: 12+
  • File Size: 105.97 MB
  • Developer: The Economist
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 16.0
Score: 4.871
4.871
From 172,909 Ratings

Description

The world is complex, and changing fast. The Economist app unlocks independent reporting and news analysis from correspondents across the globe. With articles, podcasts, videos and more, our app is a simple way to understand big news developments and why they matter. Now introducing The Economist Insider, a premium video offering available at launch for subscribers to The Economist. Join senior editors as they explain what's happening now—and what comes next. What does The Economist cover? With expert journalists around the world, The Economist reports on politics in America and around the world, as well as economics, business, science, technology and more. We connect the dots to explain the news today and implications for tomorrow. Why choose The Economist app? - Read global, fact-checked news reporting anywhere - Listen to award-winning podcasts and audio articles - Watch videos that distill big news Get access to independent news reporting on your terms: - Catch up on the news quickly with The World in Brief - Enjoy early access to weekly edition, ahead of print - Download articles for offline reading Play news games to test your knowledge: - Mini crossword: The Economist’s wordplay news puzzle - Dateline history quiz: guess when news extracts were published - Pint-sized news quiz: have you been following the latest headlines? Enjoy additional features: - Bookmark news articles to read later - Give news articles to friends and family - Read news analysis easily with adjustable text size - Toggle dark mode See what The Economist subscribers say: “Great app, excellent journalism! 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.” “Impeccable journalism with an app to match. The Economist doesn’t need my endorsement of the quality of their journalism. It speaks for itself. Rather, I’ll comment that their app is well-designed and refreshing to use…I love being able to easily download entire editions, listen to articles with real narrators and search for past articles.” Full terms of use: https://www.economist.com/legal/terms-of-use Our privacy policy: https://www.economist.com/privacy

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Reviews

  • Always My Best Source

    5
    By AntiWeird
    Big E continues to uphold the high level of journalism and pod cast is another great tool they created for my use.

  • Good not great app

    4
    By LieutenantLazybones
    Easy to read. Main beef is the audio interface. It won’t play in my car, which is when I usually listen to news.

  • Worth the money

    5
    By serfsupdude
    It really is worth the price of subscription

  • Easily satisfied with the best

    5
    By Saratoga reader
    In a time when facts, truth, experience and science are under attack, The Economist is an essential defense.

  • Wonderful Journalism and Narration, But AI Looms

    5
    By Exuberant-Elephant-Shrew
    The feature that I’ve found especially useful is the narrated versions of articles. These are narrated by real humans, not AI. This sets The Economist apart from other publications such as the NYT or the Atlantic which rely on AI narration. I find AI narration unpleasant and unsettling. It is not able to convey the true emotion or flow of the writing (one has to watch, not just read, Shakespeare). The Economist’s voice actors are excellent and I appreciate that they do not simply read the article verbatim. Instead, they modify it slightly so that it flows better in a spoken format. This makes it easy and pleasant to “read” The Economist while walking or cooking. For a long time I have wanted to commend The Economist on this feature. I am spurred to now because of the recent proliferation of AI narrated articles. Several times I have tapped on an article to listen, only to be disappointed when I see that the narration is AI. Ideally, I would like all articles to be narrated by humans. I realize that this is not necessarily practical and that many other people may not feel as strongly as I do. If the choice is between AI narration and no narration, the AI option wins out. My proposed compromise would be a new icon that notes from the home page that an article has an AI narration. At present, the symbol for human or AI narration is the same, a play button. If it would be possible to create a second icon specifically for AI narration, my frustration while browsing would be reduced. Most of all though, I want to strongly recommend that The Economist broaden it’s human narration. The journalism is excellent and the app is great. I would celebrate the publication’s “humanness” both in writing and narration. May your passion and creativity continue.

  • Second to none

    5
    By Dev B. 4
    The gold standard in news

  • Crashes on my iPad mini

    3
    By Barry, Michigan
    I enjoy the app on my iPhone, but can’t get it to open on iPad mini

  • Abhishek Kothari

    5
    By AbhishekKothari
    I have been a subscriber of the newspaper. I love the app for its unique combination of a clean user interface and rich journalism.

  • Great reporting…unstable app experience

    3
    By Unhappy..........
    Absolutely love the economist, but every 6 months or so something breaks in the app in the most absurd way. You should be able to listen to articles, then suddenly that feature stops working.

  • The world’s best news source

    5
    By Nerd2209
    I am a voracious and apolitical news reader. Over and over again I find the deepest, most rigorous information across all fields in The Economist. In a time when truth gets stretched and distorted by even mainstream media outlets, subscribing to The Economist is not only important, it is one of the biggest acts of democratic defiance.

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