New York Times ends partnership with Apple News

| June 29, 2020 02:51 PM

The New York Times has decided to end its partnership with Apple News.

Reports from the newspaper will no longer be featured on Apple's news platform starting on Monday.

“Core to a healthy model between The Times and the platforms is a direct path for sending those readers back into our environments, where we control the presentation of our report, the relationships with our readers, and the nature of our business rules,” Meredith Kopit Levien, chief operating officer, wrote in a memo to employees. “Our relationship with Apple News does not fit within these parameters.”

An Apple spokesman said that the New York Times “only offered Apple News a few stories a day,” and added that, “We are also committed to supporting quality journalism through the proven business models of advertising, subscriptions, and commerce."

The New York Times is one of the first publications to cease their relationship with Apple News even though it has roughly 125 million monthly active users, making the app one of the world’s most widely read news sources.

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