Mediatwits #131: News App Showdown: Yahoo News Digest, NYT Now, Circa, AJ+

With media consumption moving inexorably toward mobile, the experience for getting news on a mobile is fragmented. Every news outlet has its own app, but who wants to open them all every morning? Enter the aggregated news apps, which have gone from Flipboard, Zite and Trove to Yahoo News Digest (born as Summly), NYT Now, Circa and the most recent entrant from Al Jazeera: AJ+. This is still a nascent era for mobile news, and the competition will only get more stiff with News Corp. and others developing yet more apps. So which ones will become dominant players, and which will be sidelined? We only have so much time in our days for news apps, so our favorites have the potential to become major gateways to news -- and money-makers.

On this week's Mediatwits podcast, we’ll immerse ourselves in news apps with teen wunderkind Nick D'Aloisio who founded Summly and sold it to Yahoo (where it became Yahoo News Digest); Circa founding editor David Cohn; and David Perpich, general manager of digital products at the New York Times. Plus, we’ll be joined by regulars Andrew Lih from American University and host Mark Glaser from PBS MediaShift, with Fannie Cohen producing.

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