The Economist: World News 12+
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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 3.57.0
This release includes general improvements and bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Political Leanings
I love the economist. But I do feel that it is leaning more left as time goes on. All the negative news for these past 6 months have all been regarding right wing politics, and I don’t believe the Economist is painting a picture of the other side. For a newspaper priding themselves on impartiality, this is not the way to go.
Still hankering after remain.
Don’t diss patriotism. Your editors are also fiercely patriotic but not to a geographic area but to a group of people. Why is everyone keen to enter UK freely? Because for all its faults it still has the best system of government built up over 1000 years. The European Union has no emotional appeal except to the bureaucrats who run it and the perpetual globalists who benefit most from globalism and want to go where it suits themselves from time to time. Even the German Constitutional court is now bucking up against the ECJ. No one least of all the Europeans has much love for Europe. Trade should be achievable without a unified farce if a nonexistent state. The Economist’s agenda is to more to itself than anyone else.
High Quality Content - Low Quality Performance
While I can’t fault the quality of the content, the performance of the app has taken a nose dive in recent months.
It *consistently* takes more than a minute to download an edition over a 100Mbps WIFI connection and *frequently* fails halfway. This is really frustrating as I usually remember to download an edition as I’m on my way out the door.
Playback performance of downloaded editions is patchy, often taking impossibly long for *downloaded* content to start playing, occasionally requiring multiple attempts at stop and restarting playback and sometimes restarting the app, and eventually abandoning listening altogether.
No other app on my iPhone has this problem with downloads. Every single other app downloads content (2 hour long, high audio quality podcasts episodes, for example) in the blink of an eye.
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Information
- Provider
- The Economist Newspaper Group Inc.
- Size
- 61.7 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 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 R649.00
- Digital Annual R6,499.00
- Podcasts+ Monthly R70.00
- Three month subscription R1,049.99
- Podcasts+ Annual R700.00
- One year subscription R5,899.00