News-O-Matic App Review: Daily News For Kids

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News-O-Matic, Daily News For Kids
By Press4Kids

This daily newspaper app is targeted to kids ages 7-10 and features five stories. Each story has images, videos, illustrations, and a map that shows the location of each story. There are also Fact and Act buttons that give you a fact about the story and the Act button tells you how or what you can do in regards to the story. For example with the Almost Perfect story, they ask kids to learn how others cope with disappointment.

There are also several interactive features: 

• Games: the two games include puzzles and a mystery word
• News Room: Kids can interact with the Editor-in-Chief, Russ, by rating stories, drawing pictures, asking questions or expressing opinions about current topics
• Time Capsule: an interactive timeline

 

Each article is written by a staff of professional children’s writers, including teachers, and reviewed by a child psychologist before publication to ensure emotionally safe content. News-O-Matic is 100% ad-free.

Overall, I like the idea of a kids news app. My nine-year-old is right in the middle of the targeted demographic and with this app, I don’t have to worry about censoring certain articles. Today was the first issue I received and it included the following articles:

• Changing The Classroom: All about the iPad and how they are showing up in schools
• Vote For Zari: A woman runs for office in Pakistan
• Almost Perfect: Yu Darvish, Texas Picture, comes close to making history
• World’s Largest Ice Cream: World Record set in Japan
• Star Power: Madonna visits Malawi Schools

While the app is free and you do get 3 FREE issues, the rest will cost you: Yearly subscription: $49.99 (260 issues), Monthly subscription: $6.99 (22 issues) Weekly subscription: $1.99 + 1 week free (10 issues)

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