Most of us will prefer to watch a short video clips of major events than to read two to three pages reports. News companies understand this so they create short videos of major news and events and post them on their web site. The problem now becomes how to organize thousands of video being published to one spot. Newsy: Multisource Video News was developed to help solve this problem. Newsy is a news video “analyzer” that helps to collect and organized video clips from many sources. We asked Alexandra Wharton of Newsy.com a few questions about their app and Android in general; here are the answers:
What is the motivation behind Newsy?
There were several motivations for starting Newsy: increasing interest in global news perspectives; the majority of people think there is a bias in the media; online video viewership has exploded over the past 3 years.
Given that every big news company including CNN, ABC, FOX, BBC, among others, now have short videos for every major news event, how does your app help users organize these videos? Read more