Amazon Launches Customizable News Aggregator for Fire TV and Tablets
Amazon introduces a new news aggregation app for Fire TV that allows users to customize their news feed from nearly twenty different media outlets. The app also features voice-activated access through Alexa and plans to expand its content selection in the future.
Amazon launches a new news aggregation app for Fire TV users in the United States, offering a highly customizable way to consume daily news. The application curates content from nearly twenty different media partners, including major outlets like Reuters, CBS, Bloomberg, and HuffPost, alongside several specialized Yahoo properties.
Several prominent news organizations are notably absent from the initial lineup, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and CNN. Amazon acknowledges this limitation and attributes it to the complexities of negotiating content deals involving paywalls and smart assistant integration, but the company promises to continually expand its news selection over time.
Users interact with the new service primarily through voice commands by asking Alexa to "play the news" after selecting their preferred sources. The app currently debuts on Fire TV devices, with Amazon confirming that support for Alexa-enabled Fire tablets is arriving in the near future.