Other efforts in the space include those running on Facebook Messenger's bot platform, like bots from CNN, The WSJ, Business Insider or even yours truly; Telegram's news bots; or independent efforts like Quartz's app, and many more.
Interestingly, the Quartz news bot app is sponsored.
If you're tired of news apps that all look the same, you'll want to take a look at the iPhone app that Quartz just put out.
Already, media is reconfiguring for brevity; publications are designing conversational ways of relaying news, with Quartz's news bot app as a strong early example of what this could look like when done well.
We reported that the social network giant is gearing up to open its Messenger to third party bots soon, while there is even a news app — from Quartz — that adopted the bot style for delivering the day's important headlines.
The upward trajectory and startup atmosphere at Quartz (staff recently got an app which plays a spurt of personalised theme music when they walk into the New York HQ) only serve to highlight Time's troubles.
Quartz, meanwhile, launched a standalone app that feels like a mobile messenger, and delivers stories in an interactive, chat-like format.
The summary feature is a bit reminiscent of Quartz's standalone news messaging app, and is a good way to get briefed on the most important aspects to the day's news.
Today, US digital news publisher Quartz launches its much awaited news app – and it's like no news app you've ever seen before.
Rather than rejigging the normal site, the Quartz team has built an iPhone app that resembles a messaging interface, engaging readers in a chatty, scripted exchange about the news.
