The Economist - News, Podcasts

The Economist - News, Podcasts

By The Economist

  • Category: News
  • Release Date: 2018-05-03
  • Current Version: 4.85.0
  • Adult Rating: 12+
  • File Size: 119.71 MB
  • Developer: The Economist
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
Score: 4.87099
4.87099
From 182,235 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

  • I miss the old audio narrations

    3
    By wwwwwwwiiiiiiiillllllll
    The Economist app lost a lot of character when it switched to AI narrators. I didn’t mind that only select articles were narrated and there was some delay. Intentionally absorbing articles is more difficult now.

  • Needs lots of improvements

    1
    By Anurup Joseph
    Even if I’ve downloaded an issue, the app still needs Internet access. If I download issues and then go on an airplane and reopen the app, it still needs Internet access to show any articles or play any audio — defeating the entire purpose of downloading the issue for offline access. The reason appears to be a combination of bad requirements, coding, and testing. It is a bad requirement to require network connectivity to view an issue or play its audio while offline. Poor coding leads to a terrible outcome since the already downloaded data should be presented to the user even when offline. Lastly, it seems that the testers never tested such use cases while offline (airplanes or elevators/lifts or garages/carparks or anywhere else where network access is not available). I love The Economist’s content. I have also been a user of The Economist app for as long as it has been out, and I continue to be disappointed in its performance.

  • Notifications don’t work

    3
    By rcxn
    Somewhat useless if you want to use Notification Center to read articles. Clicking on a notification opens the app, but not the article - so you have to search for the article. Infrequently, the articles shows up after a minute or two (navigating to the beginning if you already started reading). Works fine for browsing via the app though.

  • Shouldn’t be this hard

    3
    By SmoochiesBoss
    Due to an overly aggressive, downloading of stories and checking credentials, clicking an alert doesn’t bring you to the story, but simply opens the app, unless you’ve recently opened the app already. Before, the app would log out you on an overly agressive basis also rendering the app not particularly good. Plenty of other paywalls news organizations have managed to write cohesive iOS apps. I’m not sure why this has been an impossibility for the Economist for years.

  • When will they fix the audio queue?

    1
    By Tom Timson
    Why can’t I play JUST ONE story in the queue without having it add the entire edition??? If you guys won’t add a sleep timer, at least build a working queue. This is why I can’t recommend The Economist to anyone.

  • App crashing on iPad

    1
    By Quiktrade
    The app is crashing on iPad. I deleted and reinstalled and it didn’t help. It just dies immediately.

  • Charging

    1
    By Omggirlbye
    I literally canceled my subscription almost a month ago and for some reason I just got charged for it again? I literally also signed back into my account just now and it literally confirms that my subscription has BEEN canceled. Why am I being charged for this and not even OWNING the subscription??????

  • Forgetting the obvious

    1
    By RadiantAardvark
    I downloaded this app because of an ad that ran after a YT video, that discuss the ever elusive JE files. I was very interested in the way the emails had been broken down by numbers of messages per recipient and by the percentage of correspondence by industry. At first I was impressed that the names were being called out so specifically, but then realized you never even mentioned Trump. You were not saying that anyone was guilty of any crime, you were just naming the names of the most frequent people in the emails, so I’m unsure why he wasn’t mentioned. It felt very intentional, and I, nor should anyone, trust a news outlet or any publication who is not willing to discuss all of the truth, when they claim to be reporting the truth. This was pretty disappointing.

  • AI narration fails if not connected

    1
    By Jonathan M.C.
    Hiking out of data coverage (or on airplane), app refused to play article even though I had all audio downloaded, because that story was “AI narrated” only. Again! Also, still dislike that sections are so badly ordered (Britain and Europe so far down the order)

  • Used to be great

    4
    By Susapix
    Used to be great but now so buggy it won’t even open. Hope they get it fixed soon,

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