Washington Post: Live News

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Permissions Required

This app may request the following permissions:

• find accounts on the device
• add or remove accounts
• read the contents of your USB storage
• modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
• take pictures and videos
• record audio
• view Wi-Fi connections
• view network connections
• create accounts and set passwords
• change network connectivity
• full network access
• read sync settings
• control vibration
• prevent device from sleeping
• modify system settings
• toggle sync on and off
• receive data from Internet

Recent Reviews

N Elaine J

1.0★

Annoying video ads: Even though you've a paid subscription, you have to sit thru 15 seconds of video ads before watching a video. An article may have 12 short videos, and each starts with ads. Sheer madness. disruptive! Unnecessary noise! Waste of my time! I don't watch the ads unless necessary. Long gone the days of a paper newspaper which was supported by ads that didn't move, and a one- or two- second glimpse was all it took for the reader to acknowledge the sales pitch.

Mark Perkins

1.0★

App opens with Top Stories (I can't say I don't want this). Half(!!!) of the screen is used for those four little "cards" that are useless.Today three (yes three) of them link to games that I can easily find via the games menu at the bottom of the screen. The most annoying, though, is when I get "continue reading" hints. I am well aware of what I've been reading and don't always want to read a whole article that has already repeated itself ad infinitum. I'm about done w/ WaPo altogether.

Mason Deterding

3.0★

The app itself works great and is fantastic for articles. What's hard unfortunately is being able to afford the subscriptions I have. a free plan that I signed up for as long as I had an account and then a few days later they took it away and started putting stuff behind paywalls. Apparently we only believe in a free press unless we make money off it. Ridiculous.

Nicholas Del Giudice

1.0★

Imagine paying for a newspaper subscription, but the app won't actually hold an article open for more than 10 seconds before going back to the homepage, eventually leading to the app crashing. It's updated and all. Don't feel like I'm getting my subscription's worth. Plus, with them consistently changing who does the Seven in the morning, and always changing the music is just annoying. I come to you for news. Not different personalities in a podcast or funky transition music. I want the news.

A Google user

3.0★

Good news source, but too easy to accidentally "tap" an article you don't want to read, which counts towards your 10 free articles a month. They ought to prompt you to verify that you want to read it, or give you a few seconds to back out without penalizing. For all the ads, I think they could do that. Or maybe have you watch ads in exchange for reading.

Jeffrey Dunn

1.0★

Horrible app, and it's gotten worse. Now, many pages cannot be bookmarked, at all. Either they have no bookmark icon that can be pressed, or pressing it does nothing. It's a shame, because the Post provides good news. It constantly loses my location and I have to scroll through many articles to figure out where I was. Bookmarks show up in the app, but not online, or vice versa. Some bookmarks cannot be cleared, and the article is left in the reading list forever. It's just become unusable.