App Chat: Social Media Gets Newsy
16:48 minutes
Facebook’s newest app, Paper, is as much newspaper as it is social media tool. It follows other apps like Circa, Flipboard, and Twitter at tackling the distribution and curation of the day’s news. Ellis Hamburger, a reporter at The Verge, talks about why social media giants are betting on news, and how it might affect our future reading habits.
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Ellis Hamburger
Ellis Hamburger is a former reporter for The Verge in New York, New York.
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