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Apple News+ audio stories expand beyond the U.S. - 9to5Mac


After five years of being US-only, the Apple News+ audio stories feature is finaly making their way to a few extra countries.

Narrated by professional voice actors, these are audio versions of some of the best feature reporting and long-form pieces published by Esquire, Essence, Fast Company, GQ, New York magazine, Sports Illustrated, TIME, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Wired, and more, and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal. The obvious limited scope is probably due to distribution and contractual agreements with publishers, as well as the challenges of producing localized, organic content in multiple languages. He began covering Apple news in Brazilian media in 2012 and later broadened his focus to the wider tech industry, hosting a daily podcast for seven years.

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