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Outside of iTunes, Apple hasn’t had much of a presence in digital content and news. But that changed in a big way at the recent Worldwide Developer Conference, when Apple revealed it was replacing its Newsstand app with the News app, which would curate the news, while also using human editors. Could Apple do what they did with music and revolutionize digital publishing? It’s hard to tell, but it does have an advantage when it preloads the app on all phones with the new iOS 9. However, third party apps such as Flipboard and Yahoo News Digest (born as Summly) have had varying degrees of success. Circa, which was once hailed as a “top app of the year” is now running out of money. In a world a growing number of people get their news from social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, stand-alone apps are struggling. On this episode of the Mediatwits, we’ll talk with special guests Eric Griffith, features editor at PC Magazine; Leander Kahney, publisher at Cult of Mac; Michael Sebastian, reporter at Ad Age; and Andrew Lih at American University. MediaShift’s Mark Glaser will be hosting and Jefferson Yen producing.