Apple Picks ‘3 News’ As New Zealand’s Top News IPhone App

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Friday 23 December, 2011

Apple Picks ‘3 News’ As New Zealand’s Top News IPhone App

The 3 News iPhone app has been named as one of the five best news apps available in Australasia, in the annual Apple iTunes App Store Rewind. 3 News is the only New Zealand news app named in the prestigious list, which showcases the best apps to hit the App Store in 2011.

The App Store Rewind names the year’s top five apps in each of 20 categories from travel to games. 3 News was named in the top five alongside two heavy hitters of the app world, Flipboard and Instapaper. Only one other news agency made the top five - SBS World News Australia.

The app is a great way to get up-to-the-minute information from 3 News’ award-winning newsroom. It receives 400,000 impressions per week, and the most recent version has been downloaded 45,000 times.

This is the second big success for 3 News mobile apps this year. Launching in early November, the 3 News iPad app maintained the top spot of iTunes Free Apps charts for four weeks and has been downloaded 16500 times

The 3 News iPhone App features:

• Latest and Breaking news from all the sections on 3news.co.nz - national, world, sports, entertainment, politics, business, technology, environment and lifestyle

• Watch high quality video from 3 News, Firstline, Campbell Live, 60 Minutes, Nightline, Sports Tonight and The Nation

• Weather for your region and around the country

• You become the reporter – send us your best video, news and weather pictures with our 'report' feature. Email the news anchors directly from your device.

• Offline browsing of articles

To download the app, visit http://www.3news.co.nz/Home/3NewsiPhoneApp.aspx

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