Apple Releases Documentation to Help Publishers Prepare for Apple News Format

WordPress is working on a plugin for this to make conversion easy. It's available in development now.

I'm going to stick with RSS until either it dies or I do.

This format offers far more to publishers than RSS does. Stuff like rich media galleries and far less overhead making it download much quicker on Apple devices.

…the tag line for the advertisement of the app: "Give you the news that you want..."

Give you what YOU want to read?!? This is not news, but a better way to control what you really know...or what they want you to know...

People are self-censoring by nature. That is, we turn a deaf ear to news and opinions we don’t already agree with. How many of us, for example, bother to read any of the Android-centric product reviews or blogs to see what their camp is actually achieving? How many of us will read the opinions of an opposing political proponent rather than rely on soundbites fed to us by our party?

nt5672 does have a legitimate concern. News organizations are slanted. What is to prevent Apple from excluding articles that are critical of it?

After tinkering with the size to get the right ratio, I also discovered that it had to have no blank space around it. I eventually made it just the name in a bold font and I manually stretched it so it touched the entire canvas.

Also, be sure it's transparent. They intend to overlay it. I used a PNG file.

Is there a link where I could learn more about the wordpress plugin?
UPDATE: Disregard. I see link above.

Also note, this seems to be the original in the WordPress repository:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/publish-to-apple-news/

I've no idea on the status of it.

The best news app would give you control according to your views on everything you could think of. ...

I look forward to someone catering to our needs, though I doubt it will be Apple; Tim Cook has turned Apple into his own political party.

The problem is that then you're never seeing anything but your own views. I think it's important to keep tabs on the other side(s). You don't have to read everything in depth, but I don't think totally filtering it out is good. But, no kidding about Apple these days (and, it seems, all the big companies)... they seem enamored to join the 'tolerant', 'open-minded', 'anti-bully', 'diversity', 'inclusive' gang, where all of those words, in fact, mean the opposite.

All of the rejections had to do with the format of the logo, but they never gave a specific reason why the logo was rejected...

Any tips?

Years ago at a SigGrapgh conference a very interesting UI was presented with a "wing slider" at the bottom of the app view. Slide to the left, more liberal, slide to the right, more conservative.

It had a self-layout algorithm that gave more, less or no layout space to an article based on the political history of an article byline according to how it matched the setting of the wing slider.

A very fluid flow of a newspaper layout was done sliding the wing slider from the left to the right of the screen. Thus user and not the editor had control over layout. The mainstream media types in the audience were notably disturbed seeing this demo.

That sounds like a superb idea.

The best news app would give you control according to your views on everything you could think of. I don't want to see any articles from people who are pro-abortion, anti-hunting or writing about rap music, for instance.

I look forward to someone catering to our needs, though I doubt it will be Apple; Tim Cook has turned Apple into his own political party.