Last week’s Radio 4 In Business programme looked at business newspapers and how some of the world’s best known-brands are struggling to compete with online rivals and in the face of the economic downturn.
Well worth a listen at this link, it includes interview with representatives from the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Bloomberg and Bloomberg Business Week.
The Standard will launch an application for smartphones later this month, an announcement by developers Handmark to coincide with this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
According to the launch release, “content within the London Evening Standard mobile application will be refreshed automatically and available for offline reading”.
Handmark’s mobile publishing platform has already been used by Thomson Reuters, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
There are no details about the cost of the app – the Standard’s print edition went free in October.