Topic: Lean Back reading

As part of our “digital disruptors” video series, we’re inviting the innovators shaking up the media industry to tell us how they are pushing the limits of media and publishing – and why. Today’s disruptor is Paul Canetti, founder and chief executive of MAZ, who works at the nexus of publishing and digital reading. Publishers [...]

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Tags: code, iPad, magazines, publishers, tech

In a piece for the New York Times, Amy Chozik explores President Obama’s news diet. Not only is the president an avid reader of the news, it turns out he’s an avid reader of news on his iPad. Chozik writes that President Obama “typically begins his day upstairs in the White House reading the major [...]

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Tags: iPad, news, President Obama

Today’s digital disruptor is Dennis Mortensen, founder and chief executive of Visual Revenue, a start-up that provides “a predictive analytics solution” to help online publishers create a better front page. There has long been an art to the front page. Based on years of experience and some well-honed gut instincts, editors pick which news story [...]

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In the week since the launch of our digital disruptors video series, we’ve already had Shafqat Islam, chief executive NewsCred, discuss how tablets are changing the publishing industry and BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti explain how social media is upending the way we share news. Now, we’re announcing our next digital disruptor: Deanna Zandt, a digital media [...]

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Tags: iPad, media, news, tablet, tech

Cast an eye over a website that most appeals to you in terms of lean-back reading and you’ll probably find a few common themes – minimal colour scheme, an absence of distracting clutter and clean design that incorporates a font that is comfortable on the eye, and not overly-expressive or extravagant. Readability, an online application [...]

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Tags: design, iPad, journalism, kindle, longreads, reading

In little more than two years, the tablet has gone from an early adopter’s “must-have” to an increasingly common device for consumers, even for those who consider themselves less tech-savvy. Think about it: it was only in 2010 that Apple launched the first iPad, essentially marking the birth of the tablet for the mainstream consumer. [...]

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Tags: charts, iPad, Nielsen, shopping, stats, trends