Why Circa failed • Hacker News Board

Re: Why Circa failed

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Post by lotso » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 4:16 PM UTC

amyjess wrote: post #15

protomyth wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, the point from the article "Circa was cold and rational at a time when journalism was becoming more entertaining and emotional." This isn't journalism, its become punditry. I would also love a just the facts news source.

Mind you, The Verge is a publication that has loudly and aggressively defended its biases, saying that biased journalism is better than unbiased journalism. As far as I'm concerned, The Verge isn't a real journalistic outlet and shouldn't be seriously. They're half an Apple shill blog and half a left-wing political publication. That's not journalism.

What left-wing political journalism is coming from The Verge? Support for net neutrality and being anti-gamergate?

Re: Why Circa failed

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Post by lotso » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 4:22 PM UTC

Although they don't have summaries for every article, the NYTNow app is probably my favorite implementation of these snack-sized newsreader apps.

They have daily and nightly briefings that contain ~10-15 short paragraph summaries that link to a longform article if you want to dive deep. They also link to their favorite NYTimes articles from today and their favorite articles from other publications. I've pretty much stopped using the main NYTimes app on my phone now.

They also made recently made it free. Sorry if this sounds like an advert, but I really can't say how much I enjoy using it.

Re: Why Circa failed

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Post by JaggedJax » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 5:10 PM UTC

lotso wrote: post #22

Although they don't have summaries for every article, the NYTNow app is probably my favorite implementation of these snack-sized newsreader apps. They have daily and nightly briefings that contain ~10-15 short paragraph summaries that link to a longform article if you want to dive deep. They also link to their favorite NYTimes articles from today and their favorite articles from other publications. I've pretty much s…

Is there a Circa or NYT Now alternative for Android? Circa was great and NYT Now apparently has no plans to make an Android version any time soon.

Re: Why Circa failed

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Post by ksec » Fri, Jun 26, 2015, 3:00 AM UTC

guiambros wrote: post #16

> Circa was cold and rational at a time when journalism was becoming more entertaining and emotional Too bad, the reason I liked Circa was exactly the cold, rational, to-the-point approach, wrapped in a nice and usable app.

Crap, when i just thought the world needs better journalism that are rational, less entertaining and more to the point, while reporting from neutral perspective.....

Re: Why Circa failed

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Post by TheAdamist » Fri, Jun 26, 2015, 1:20 PM UTC

Circa failed because I've seen several articles about it failing and had never even heard about it while it was operating. They got their PR backwards.

Re: Why Circa failed

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Post by seivan » Wed, Jul 01, 2015, 4:17 PM UTC

lotso wrote: post #21

amyjess wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mind you, The Verge is a publication that has loudly and aggressively defended its biases, saying that biased journalism is better than unbiased journalism. As far as I'm concerned, The Verge isn't a real journalistic outlet and shouldn't be seriously. They're half an Apple shill blog and half a left-wing political publication. That's not journalism.

What left-wing political journalism is coming from The Verge? Support for net neutrality and being anti-gamergate?

You're joking right? Identity politics is (in my opinion extreme) left-wing stance on problems.