Circa, a mobile news provider co-founded by Cheezburger Network CEO Ben Huh, is launching real-time breaking news alerts — and is also working on customized news updates that could be sent to specific users based on their interests. Read more at GigaOM »
Despite the fact that they are in financial distress — or perhaps because of that distress — both the Boston Globe and the Washington Post are experimenting with some interesting new formats for finding and displaying the news. Read more »
Instead of trying to fit everything into a traditional story, Circa looks at facts as “objects” which can then be stacked together in whatever order is necessary — creating a much more efficient way of delivering the news. Read more »
The FT just launched a rapid-fire news service that consists of 100-250 word stories. The idea is to offer punchy news and analysis — and ensure readers don’t have to stray from the FT for their business news. Read more »
Circa, the San Francisco-based startup that creates news summaries for mobile users, says it has hired Thomson Reuters social-media editor Anthony De Rosa as its new editor-in-chief to expand its journalistic reach. Read more »
From PaidContent Live 2013, we brought you five different entrepreneurs who talked about ways in which they are changing up business models for media and the ways in which people consume content. Read more »
Many publishers seem to assume that the best way to publish their content online is to try and recreate the look and feel of the printed product they are trying to replace, but a better approach is to strip away everything that isn’t absolutely necessary. Read more at GigaOM »
A new app called Circa, from Cheezburger Network CEO Ben Huh, wants to make reading news on mobile devices easier by breaking down the traditional story format into its component parts. Co-founder Matt Galligan says the company is trying to rethink how we consume news. Read more at GigaOM »
