Apple launched its new ‘News’ app during the Worldwide Developers Conference in June. This content aggregator will be available as a mobile app when iOS 9 is launched next autumn, replacing its current ‘Newsstand’.

Discover our new member of the month, Elodie France!

This month again, AllTheContent News Agency provided bluewin.ch with a lot of fascinating news and scoops about personalities, nature, science, and culture. Here are some of them:

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Over the last few weeks, AllTheContent has been providing our partner bluewin with a bunch of scoops, with news, groundbreaking scientific discoveries and lifestyle

Member of the month, Juliette Soulez

After the release of Merrkat, Twitter immediately hit back by launching Periscope, its own video livestreaming app. Two apps and a lot of sector of activities: news, politic, sport and entertainment.

Yik Yak was launched in 2013 as a kind of anonymous, geo-located Twitter app and took the world by storm before more recently whipping up an equally big storm of controversy. For some people, this app frees up speech and this makes it a valuable journalistic tool – for others it is simply a gigantic digital rant room.

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This month, as usual, AllTheContent provided bluewin.ch with an explosive cocktail of scoops, breaking news and funny or touching stories. Check out a sample of them below:

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Our last post about “mojo” or “mobile journalism” has had a lot of feedback this week and many of you wanted to know more.

The explosion in smartphones has not stopped disrupting journalistic practices. Not only has it deeply altered the relationship between the public and the media but it has given journalists a new tool – the mobile phone – which allows them to film, photograph and even edit their own reports directly on their mobile.

Communication is my passion. My work combines my love of language with a strong desire to delve deep into different subjects and cultures. I am a freelance English into Brazilian Portuguese translator, interpreter, proofreader, and voice-over talent based in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Paradoxically, the current flood of smart phones and tablets is not good news for digital media funded by ads. The same advertisement brings in five times less revenue when it is viewed on a mobile device than on a desktop computer, simply because it is much less visible – and consequently profitable – on a small screen.

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During the shooting of his upcoming new film, “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”, Tom Cruise performed himself

While information on the internet is frequently free of charge, the very nature of the media consumed on tablets means that users are prepared to pay for it.

Get to know our new member of the month, Thomas Lestavel.
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