Yahoo News Digest review
Yahoo News Digest distills news from multiple sources to deliver pithy summaries, for free, twice a day, to your Android device. Most stories are built around "Atoms," which can be quotes, images, videos, Wikipedia entries, or anything that provides the context usually missing from online news. Stories are assembled by algorithmic and editorial input and include textual summaries.
Pros
Layout: Yahoo News Digest's layout swipes and scrolls smoothly, and the large type and color-coded categories like Sports and Entertainment make for high readability on the go.
Atoms: The app's "atomic elements" supply background information, history, statistics, images, and more; giving critical context that not only makes for quick comprehension but also deeper understanding.
References: You can view the stories summarized in Yahoo News Digest under References. Many stories also offer in-depth exploration of topics.
Cons
Sourcing: Extracting bits of other news stories and assembling them into a summary may not do justice (and could do a disservice) to the journalism that went into their preparation, and news bites ("Atoms") may not replace lost context.
Bottom Line
Concerns about Yahoo News Digest culling facts from multiple news sources are probably misplaced since the app's alternative isn't so much the rest of the news media as the time it takes to find and read what boils down to the same information.
