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The New York Times Removes Its Articles From Apple News (engadget.com) 62

Today, the New York Times announced that it is ending its partnership with Apple News and removing its articles from the platform. Engadget reports: The issue seems to be that while other services, like Google News, send readers to publishers' websites, Apple News generally keeps readers in the app. Or, as NYT puts it, Apple's approach does not align with The Times' goal of building direct relationships with paying readers.

"Core to a healthy model between The Times and the platforms is a direct path for sending those readers back into our environments, where we control the presentation of our report, the relationships with our readers, and the nature of our business rules," Meredith Kopit Levien, The Times' chief operating officer, wrote in a memo to employees. "Our relationship with Apple News does not fit within these parameters."

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The New York Times Removes Its Articles From Apple News

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  • by The New Guy 2.0 ( 3497907 ) on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:39PM (#60244338)

    Newspapers can get their revenues from either subscribers, ads, or whoever is giving the articles away...

    Apple was offering NYT articles without a subscription nor ads... so they've better pay NYT enough or this doesn't work.

    NYT is usually the first to walk from such things... next expect The AP to balk.

    • by mark-t ( 151149 )
      Actually, if I remember correctly, Apple users could read the NYT headline through Apple news without an NYT subscription, and a caption that described a bit of what to expect in the article, but no ability to actually read the NYT article without an NYT subscription.
      • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

        by saloomy ( 2817221 )
        I stopped using Apple News after they started pinning "special coverage" above my "following" list, which is very one sided to a narrative. Apple has been leaning more and more political. It's my news feed, and while I appreciate both sides of a story, please show me both sides, or I will get my news elsewhere; as I have done here.
        • News, especially from big corporations such as The New York Times, are either far-left or far-right these days, you never get the whole picture. Which is why I get all my news from The Onion, because at least I know I'm always being lied to in the most insane ways.

  • The issue is not about the âpresentationâ(TM) or the ârelationship with readersâ(TM). The issue is that NYT has to have good user tracking to provide well segmented audiences to itâ(TM)s advertisers. The advertising revenue for âanonymousâ(TM) users is significantly lower or NYT simply canâ(TM)t oppose rate under those constraints.

  • Fuck apple.
  • Remove Facebook (Score:4, Insightful)

    by votsalo ( 5723036 ) on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:55PM (#60244398)
    NYT should also remove the Facebook button from its website.
  • by blitz487 ( 606553 ) on Monday June 29, 2020 @05:52PM (#60244678)
    It's all just opinion pieces.
  • I am not paying to each newspaper one by one. I want to be able to compare what different newspapers say. I am not interested in whole content of one particular periodical - I am interested in a particular topic across all periodicals.
    • by HiThere ( 15173 )

      And the problem seems to be that there is no decent way to pay for that access. Everybody who sets themselves up as a news aggregator want's to control the presentation, or what is presented. This is as true of the paid sites like Apple as it is of the "free" sites line NewsNow.

  • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

    Comment removed based on user account deletion
    • And jcr has taken a right-wing viewpoint for every post he's ever made with a political opinion. What's your point? We all know you're right-wing so shouldn't you support liberal discourse with the rest of the people on your "side"?

      Or is it only an affront to liberties when your voice is drowned out?

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