Apple today introduced the News Partner Program, a new slate of initiatives to expand Apple’s work with and support for journalism. The News Partner Program aims to ensure Apple News customers maintain access to trusted news and information from many of the world’s top publishers, while supporting publishers’ financial stability and advancing efforts to further media literacy and diversity in news coverage and newsrooms.
The News Partner Program is designed for subscription news publications that provide their content to Apple News in Apple News Format (ANF). ANF enables an exceptional reading experience on Apple News and unlocks the full benefit of the platform for publishers, and empowers publishers to create brand-forward stories, immersive issues, and audio stories, with designs that scale seamlessly across Apple devices. ANF also supports advertising, and publishers keep 100 percent of the revenue from advertising they sell within Apple News. To support publishers who optimize more of their content in ANF, Apple News is offering a commission rate of 15 percent on qualifying in-app purchase subscriptions from day one.
“Providing Apple News customers with access to trusted information from our publishing partners has been our priority from day one,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Services, in a statement. “For more than a decade, Apple has offered our customers many ways to access and enjoy news content across our products and services. We have hundreds of news apps from dozens of countries around the world available in the App Store, and created Apple News Format to offer publishers a tool to showcase their content and provide a great experience for millions of Apple News users.”
Publishers may apply for the News Partner Program beginning today.
Eligibility and Requirements
• Participants must maintain a robust Apple News channel in Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and publish all content to that channel in ANF. For publishers based outside of these regions and who do not publish in ANF, they must share content via an RSS feed as permitted by their rights.
• The primary function of a publisher app must be to deliver original, professionally authored news content.
• Publishers’ apps must be available on the App Store and allow users to purchase auto-renewable subscriptions through Apple’s in-app purchase system.
• Publishers must agree to a separate addendum to the Apple Developer Program License Agreement.
• The News Publisher Program is available to Apple Developer Program members globally.
• Publishers can learn more about and apply for the News Partner Program at developer.apple.com/programs/news-partner.
Apple is also announcing a recommitment of support to three leading nonprofit organizations — Common Sense Media, the News Literacy Project, and Osservatorio Permanente Giovani-Editori — that offer nonpartisan, independent media literacy programs. Apple has been supporting the work of these organizations over the past two years as part of ongoing efforts to empower young people with critical thinking skills.
The News Partner Program will also support, fund, and collaborate with additional leading organizations globally that educate news consumers on media literacy and further efforts to diversify news coverage and newsrooms. Specific projects the News Partner Program will support will be announced at a later date, and will represent organizations doing critical and impactful work on these issues.
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U.S. Corporate News is leftist establishment propaganda.
Don’t be a sucker. Don’t fall for it.
https://twitter.com/urtruthdetector/status/1417266971305992200
Your one-star votes are coming from Dem/Lib/Progs who know the truth, but can’t admit it to themselves, much less bear to see it in print.
Trump was the first U.S. President in modern times who couldn’t be bought, and they hated him for it.
And mean tweets.
That’s why Zuckerberg funded unconstitutional mail-in voting (not approved by state legislatures as required) in Democrat areas within a handful of swing states to squeak Dementia Joe the Diddling Grandpa and the Cackling Whore into illegitimate office against the people’s will. They are wholly-owned puppets of a leftist, globalist, establishment cabal.
Afghanistan, the border, energy independence, middle east peace, etc., are going well now, just seven months into this debacle, aren’t they, Dem/Lib/Prog morons?
But, hey, no mean tweets.
Or, how about the summation that President Drift was so proud of saying…
“America is Back”
Apparently, our European partners were once saying the same. I do not believe they are saying/thinking it anymore.
President Drumpf was impeached erroneously two times. President Drift’s impeachment would be meaningful, aligned with reality and there would be no obfuscation involved. It’s apparent to all, he’s compromised…cognitively and potentially politically.
Nope, I’m R and gave it one star vote. I will vote for an R who gets rid of social security, welfare, and medicare.
At the time of reading, all comments are spot on and the same theme. Journalism is DEAD and self serving the Democrats, woke warriors, leftists and socialists. Anything good or traditional love for country or constitution is mocked and ridiculed. Democrat LIES are presented as FACTS DAILY and zero accountability the mission of journalism to stand up for TRUTH TO POWER. Now reduced to Leftist PROPAGANDA and the only accountability is when the story involves Republicans and the press goes batsh*t insane as we witnessed during four years of President Trump. Biden, Pelosi, Schumer MISREPRESENT and LIE daily and no pushback from the press, zero accountability, because journalism is BIASED and DEAD…
Journalism appears to be a dead profession. Most news today is pushing an agenda. Opinion of the journalist seeps into every story and editors further embellish the story to further their underlying agenda. Cherry picking statistics that mean nothing. Really hard to find fairly presented news stories. Just look at the racial accusations regarding the black community being so far behind in Covid vaccinations. The hispanic population of vaccinated people is much closer to the mean than the Black population, even though tremendous efforts have been in place to get everyone vaccinated and taking these directly to the neighborhoods of people of color.
Write / talk about minority % in prisons vs their % of the population signaling institutional racism and demanding rewriting our laws. What % are violent criminals vs drug related convictions. What % of drug convictions are related to heroine or fentanyl vs marijuana? Big difference in violent crime and hard vs soft drugs. Drop some statistic and just paint what ever picture they want to fit their narrative.
“maintain access to trusted news and information from many of the world’s top publishers.”
After what happened in ’19-’20, I have no idea what this means. In fact, it’s a dose of gibberish. It’s coming from a company that seems a moment away from FB, Twitter and Google’s propensity to decide what they believe is “best” for consumers to know.
Call me skeptical and with little to no confidence it won’t be profoundly tilted.
Journalism
Crying Negro Network “Journalism.”
Thanks goodness he is in news cause his acting skills are sub par
He was and maybe still is a self-proclaimed communist. Why in the f is such a person respected and expected to deliver critical info to the population?
I know, it’s CNN, but doesn’t that really matter? Any you listen to him w/o any qualms?
Journalism is dead. Now it’s propaganda disguised as news. The only difference between Soviet era new agencies and ours, is we have better marketing.
And the host have shorter dresses
Who is the idiot who says that fairness is over rated? Journalists don’t report the news, they are there to create news by twisting what is there in order to be quoted by fellow news makers in oneupmanship.
OF course this is the founding principle behind communist propaganda: take something worthy and twist it to further your cause.
Australia (specifically skynews): where one can go to get a realistic, broad and truthful depiction of what’s happening in your own country (US).
The info-curation in the US is alarming. For many months, many swallowed the curated news because to embrace the information, increased the chances orangeman_bad would be canned.
Sacrificing truth for; “whatever the cost”, is foolish and costly. It’s a destructive and, ultimately a debilitating mindset.
Well said.
Parallel construction, I read the U.K. Daily Mail that has honest fair reporting. They know more about what’s actually going on in the U.S. than the Leftist BIASED media combined.
Here in the U.S. The Epoch Times newspaper is a leading source of truth, justice and the American way…
I bet Apple will only support news outlets that hate American values of freedom and individual determination. This is Apple being “creative” with their resources to destroy and subvert freedom and accelerate the demise of the USA. Apple turns a blind eye to the crimes of the CCP: ethic genocide of millions of minorities while Apple promotes CRT here in the good ole USA. Can we ever trust anything that apples dose? What is your end game motive. We know you are a moral fraud so what’s the real agenda?
Of course Apple wants to support “journalism”.
They want to guarantee good press. They need support from the public. They need leverage with politicians to get favorable laws.
You want good press, you gotta pay for it.
No, not a wise guy.
Buying good press is illegal, bribery and immoral violating tenets of objective journalism.
Specifically: investigative journalism is vital to holding the powerful to account.
What part do Apple and readers not understand?…