S2 EP10: An App for Information Overload?

The founders of Kinzen have an experimental idea to put you in control of your news.

Journalists-turned-entrepreneurs Mark Little and Áine Kerr believe the experience of getting news online is broken. (And they should know: Mark worked at Twitter and Áine at Facebook.) So, they're building an app called Kinzen, which they hope can reboot our daily news habit by delivering trustworthy journalism without overwhelming us. Afterall, they reason, we have apps to track our sleep, steps, and calories...why not news consumption? But can there really be an app for that?

GO DEEPER:

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ILLUSTRATION:

Our friends at Accurat analyzed how people consume and pay for the news with help from Kinzen...

CREDITS:

Thalia Beaty, Producer

David Herman, Audio Engineer and Composer

Dan Dzula, Audio Engineer

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