Earlier this semester I used news updates from USA Today's twitter feed and website to keep my updated on the Hurricane Dorian, so I decided to download their app to see what it had to offer. Upon opening the app it immediately asked me to specify the things that would be of the most interest to me such as: Breaking, news, entertainment and celebrity news, fashion and culture, sports, finance, envirormental, along with other categories. When I tried to select one of he categories I would be asked I would allow the app to send me push notifications, it did this repeatedly until I just decided to skip the interests section and finally see what the app had to offer. This was a bit annoying and offputting seeing as I had to deal it, before I even got to see the layout of the app.
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The visual presentation of this app is appealing and easy to understand. The pictures are vibrant and allow the reader to take a break from reading the text to see the story in a visual form. This method also helps to ensure that the story does get bombarded with unneccessay verbage. The news stories also have video links from their televised reports.
The stories are concise yet thorough. They address the 5 W's, and then address other information relevant to the news story. Even the stories on feature news stories seem to be held at the same caliber as the news stories. As I looked through various news stories a got another pop up about how i could opt out of ads, by paying $2.99/month. I understand that they to have to make money, and I was not to bother by to many ads while I browsed the app. In a day and age where there seems to be a lot of miscommunication in regards to the news of all sorts, having an app such as this is beneficial.
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