Now Ms. Kern leads roughly 30 former journalists in Sydney, London, New York and Silicon Valley. They spend their days consuming news across the internet, fielding 100 to 200 pitches a day from publishers, and debating which stories get the top spots.
Ultimately, they select five stories to lead the app, with the top two also displayed in a prominent window to the left of the iPhone home screen. They also curate a magazine-style section of feature stories. The lineup typically shifts five or more times a day, depending on the news. A single editor in London typically chooses the first mix of stories for the East Coast?s morning commute before editors in New York and then Cupertino step in. [?]
Given Apple?s ambitions and growing team of former journalists, will it ever start producing the news and not just aggregating it" ?We don?t talk about future plans, but that?s certainly not what we set out to do,? said Mr. Rosner.
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