Favorite News and RSS Update Apps

MobileRSS Free ~ Google RSS News Reader

Good for offline downloads of RSS feed subscriptions

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Fluent News Reader – Free Online News App for Current Events, Breaking US News and World Headlines

Good news reader for mainstream / noted news sites

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CNN App for iPhone

Good for CNN video as well as articles, iReporter function is exemplary for citizen journalism

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Hootsuite: Schedule Posts for Twitter, Instagram & More

Great Twitter app, especially for managing/using multiple accounts. Shrink links feature is super.

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Facebook

Great for staying up on wall comments, photo comments, etc. My main way of using Facebook.

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NPR News

Good way to catch NPR programs and articles.

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NASA App

Main news and video application for NASA. Woo hoo for science!

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iGovernment Lite – Free News and Politics To Go

News feeds from the US Government (lite version is limited in the number of available channels)

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Instapaper Free

Great for making offline copies of full news articles and other posts which don’t show up entirely in an RSS feed.

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Epicentral

Live USGS earthquake data worldwide, connects to corresponding Google News articles (similar to version in Smithsonian Museum)

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