Knewz was a USA website covering National News.
Knewz was a digital news headline service that was shut down by News Corporation on July 9, 2021. Launched on January 29, 2020, it claimed to offer "balanced news from a wide range of sources." It presented a regularly updated menu of news headlines with links to the full stories and was designed to compete with similar news aggregation services such as Google News and Drudge Report. It was available on desktop, mobile and mobile app.
News Corporation said it created Knewz to counter fake news and clickbait and to direct more money to content creators by bypassing intermediaries like Google and Facebook. The service used the unfortunate tag line "If you don't Knewz, you don't know." It also leaned heavily on media outlets owned by News Corporation such as the U.S. version of The Sun and the New York Post along with other tabloids featuring lurid headlines.
This website was owned by News Corporation.
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No Doubt About It: No Knewz is Good News Sorry, There's No More Knewz
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-- In a painfully detailed takedown of Knewz, News Corporation's widely-ignored and now-defunct news aggregation service, Joshua Benton risks giving the service more credit than it deserved.
He wrote at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 14, 2021:
I have come to bury Knewz, not to praise it
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, July 20, 2021
-- The news aggregation service from News Corporation, Knewz was shut down on July 9, 2021 after 17 months in operation. With a silly name and a copycat plan, Knewz was not a very good idea to start with and in the end failed to turn a profit for the company.
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