By putting mobile-native news adjacent to messages from friends, Snapchat could be helping create part of the low-friction news experience many want and need.
At least in certain contexts, WhatsApp is a truly major traffic driver — bigger even than Facebook. Should there be a WhatsApp button on your news site?
The BBC is on WhatsApp, WeChat, BBM, and Mxit, doing reporting and reaching new audiences. Can news organizations scale chat apps up from one-to-one to one-to-many?
“I came to Harvard with skepticism and pessimism about India’s prospects,” said Nieman-Berkman fellow Hasit Shah. “How is it possible for people to be hooked up to the Internet when those basic development indices are being fixed so slowly?”
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Cheap smartphones, low bandwidth, and a billion people: Where is India’s news headed?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 7 May. 2014. Web. 20 Oct. 2024.
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Chicago
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Cheap smartphones, low bandwidth, and a billion people: Where is India’s news headed?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified May 7, 2014. Accessed October 20, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/cheap-smartphones-low-bandwidth-and-a-billion-people-where-is-indias-news-headed/.
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