There is a notable rise in the use of messaging apps for sharing news in the last few years. Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Research Fellow at Reuters Institute, wrote in a 2019 report, “People are spending less time with relatively open networks like Facebook and more time with more private messaging applications like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Viber, and Telegram. They are also using them more heavily for news.” Clearly, messaging apps are where social media is going next, and we and other publishers need to figure them out.Tom Standage, Deputy Editor, The Economist Publishers including the BBC, The Economist, The Wall Street…
