The New York Times is using the WhatsApp messaging app to deliver updates on Pope Francis’ visits to Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay. “The updates, of which there have been a handful so far,
have been a reporter’s notebook style briefing where Jim Yardley, the Times’ Rome bureau chief, plays narrator,” Nieman Lab reports. A unit of Facebook, “WhatsApp claims 800
million monthly active users worldwide, the majority them outside the United States.”
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