This week, David Hayward keeps his eyes on the latest news
Keeping up with the world news can be a strenuous affair. There are plenty of politically motivated newspapers, news channels and so on, as well as countless other independent sites, papers, magazines and individual blogs to view. Getting to them all can be hard work.
Obviously, we could bookmark dozens of different sites and subscribe to a plethora of newspapers and their respective electronic versions, but there’s an easier way.
The Netflix Of Newspapers
PressReader, a Canadian tech company, offers users the ultimate platform for the latest news stories from around the world.
You’ll get unlimited access to more than 5,000 premium newspapers and magazines without having to register with each individual publication. From the app or the site, you’ll get content from the likes of the Washington Post, the Guardian, USA Today, the New York Post, the Daily Mail and countless others.
Regardless of what you personally think of each individual publication, PressReader is designed to help you quickly find the most relevant stories and headlines, trends and opinions from a long list of countries.
By drilling down through the available publications, you can further enhance your home feed to concentrate on certain categories, such as animals and pets, entertainment, current affairs, computing and technology and so on.
The app is well laid out, with the main home feed taking up the majority of the screen space, with a section to further read or move on to another story. You can also customise your selections at any time, change languages and take a moment to look into a free preview of a magazine or paper, buy an individual issue or subscribe to a monthly plan.
The website version of PressReader works in much the same way, acting as a virtual broadsheet where you’ll receive the latest feeds according to your own personal tastes or through a default view based on the most popular trending articles at that time.
Additionally PressReader improves its service by allowing you to translate news items and by enabling an audio commentary of the news item or across all the current news stream as configured by your personal preferences.
News Of The World
Despite the rise in social media in recent years, you can’t beat getting your head around a well-written and exposing news piece.
So whether you’re interested in what Donald Trump is currently up to or you want to read about the latest wearable technology, you can bet you’ll find something you like within PressReader.
It’s a great app and site and available on Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and through any modern browser.
Features At A Glance
• Configurable news stream.
• Easily discover content from around the world.
• Download full newspapers and magazines for offline reading.
• Instant translation in up to 16 languages.
• Listen to articles via on-demand narration.