The Economist - News, Podcasts 12+
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The Economist
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Stay informed this election season with the Economist news app. Fact checked, data driven, unbiased journalism covering daily news.
Choose from a variety of news topics: Politics, Business, Technology, Science and more. Find thorough reporting, analysis and informed opinion from our correspondents around the world.
Download The Economist news app today and join the people who know.
Key subscriber benefits
- Full access to The Economist app and economist.com - global and local news updated daily
- The World in Brief - a faster way to understand the stories behind the news
- Economist Podcasts+ - award-winning, noise-cancelling podcasts on a variety of global issues and news events
- Weekly edition - read online, listen to narrated articles or download to enjoy offline
- Audio queue to create a custom listening list of the news
- Bookmarks to save articles to read later
- Easy reading with adjustable text size and dark mode
Full terms of use can be found at https://www.economist.com/legal/terms-of-use
Our privacy policy can be found at https://www.economist.com/privacy
What’s New
Version 4.10.0
You can now build an audio queue from the weekly edition, as well as set up your weekly editions to automatically download.
Ratings and Reviews
Great newspaper another lousy app.
For 20 years I have enjoyed reading the Economist but consistently found the user interface to be wanting. Trend continues.
Terrible for listening
For years I’ve listened to the economist on my daily commute (and kept the habit through COVID). As I’m sure many do, I read/listen to pretty much the same sections every time, so the ability to add entire sections to a “playlist” easily, to then listen in one go, was critical. But in this new version I have yet to find an easy way to do that. It would seem I have to go to each article and click to listen. Not only is that annoying, but it makes it impossible to (safely) listen to it while driving. Please help if I’m missing something!
Poor customer support (updated)
The content is good and the app is fine except - it has a bug and when I tried to point it out, I received poor responses from customer support. The Espresso section is missing from the app (accessing from iPhone SE in Canada). I pointed it out with all the details about the app three times but the customer support team kept assuming I am wrong (I have the wrong app or that I don’t have the latest version, etc.). Despite me trying to explain they kept assuming I have the wrong info. I was only trying to help but it doesn’t look it I could.
Update: clearing cache process (as described by customer support with a reply to my rating) didn’t work.
Developer Response ,
Please go to Settings → About and hold down on the version number to reset the cache. You should see Espresso appear after this.
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Information
- Seller
- The Economist Newspaper Group Inc.
- Size
- 66.2 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2023
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Digital Monthly $27.90
- Digital Annual $279.00
- Three month subscription $59.99
- Podcasts Monthly $5.90
- Podcasts Annual $59.00
- One year subscription $234.99