Categories: OLD Media Moves

FT to launch fastFT app for smartwatch

The Financial Times has launched its fastFT service on the Samsung Gear S smartwatch in its first venture into the wearables space.

Angela Haggerty of The Drum writes, “The publisher has teamed up with technology provider Spritz to create the app, which will deliver a written content stream to users at a speed of their choosing. It’s the first deal with a publisher for Spritz, and the app will be available on Samsung’s freshly unveiled Samsung Gear S smartwatch.

“John Riding, FT chief executive, said: ‘Streaming fastFT through Spritz on wearables gives our readers the opportunity to be first to try an innovative new method of reading.

‘It supports our strategy of making FT journalism available in whatever format our readers choose, and reflects the rapid growth of mobile, which now counts for almost half of all our digital traffic.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.