Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel cares about the news.
"Evan really cares about editorial judgment and editorial expertise," said Peter Hamby, Snapchat's head of news. "He genuinely cares."
This can be hard to take seriously, especially for an app that grew up as a way to send disappearing texts. And yet, Snapchat continues to build up its hard news bonafides—something no other platform like it has done before.
As the app celebrates its sixth birthday on Tuesday, the amount of hard news that is now on its once chat-focused platform is staggering. There's Good Luck America, Snapchat's homegrown politics-focused show. There's NBC's Stay Tuned has burst onto the scene with 29 million viewers. CNN's got it's own Snapchat show, too. It featured on-the-ground reporting from the city of Mosul as Iraqi and Kurdish forces fought to take it back from the Islamic State. Read more...
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