Last updated September 3, 2024 – 1:37pm
The Economist's short daily news app, Espresso, is now being made available for free to more than 400 million students around the world.
Featuring concise world news updates and videos targeted to a younger, digital-first audience, the Espresso app is available to high school and college students aged 16 and over.
The app currently features AI-powered in-app translation for French, German, Chinese, and Spanish.
This comes as The Economist makes its journalism more accessible to readers around the world, publishing AI-translated videos on its social platforms that use large-scale language models and other underlying models to turn English-speaking Economist journalists into fluent French, German, Chinese and Spanish speakers.
Luke Bradley-Jones, president of The Economist, said: “By launching the free Espresso app for students, we are demonstrating our commitment to The Economist's next generation of readers.”
“Offering the Espresso app for free to students will help grow our future subscriber base and enable us to provide fact-checked journalism that offers an independent view of the world to students who are otherwise exposed to lower-quality content.”
The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes added: “In an increasingly divided world, we believe our independent, global reporting and analysis is more important than ever, and we're proud to continue to innovate and find new ways to deliver our journalism to the next generation.”
“Our journalism is primarily delivered through subscriptions, with a notable exception for students: our Espresso app.
“Our research shows that students around the world aspire to stay up to date on the latest news and become informed global citizens, and we're pleased that access to Espresso will help them achieve their goals.”
