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Forum Communications Co.’s interactive team releases six updated iPad apps

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A screengrab of the updated iPad app for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.

FARGO, N.D. – Forum Communications Co. now has available in the Apple store updated iPad news apps for six of its newspaper properties in North Dakota and Minnesota, company officials announced.

The updated iPad apps feature the in-depth news coverage of local newspapers conveniently packaged for busy mobile users, but the new apps also improve a user’s experience by allowing continuous side-to-side scrolling of content, creating a more magazine-like feel to reading and viewing the stories and photos you want from The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald, Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune, The Jamestown (N.D.) Sun, The Dickinson (N.D.) Press and the Alexandria (Minn.) Echo Press.

You can find the updated apps here: The Forum, Grand Forks Herald, Duluth News Tribune, The Jamestown Sun, The Dickinson Press and the Alexandria Echo Press. Or to quickly access all six apps visit here.

.“Readers now will be able to scroll between articles by the simple swipe of a finger,” said FCC Digital Product Development Manager Chris Welle.

In addition, the updated apps include new caption and photo views, rebuilt layouts and new advertising opportunities for those wishing to capitalize on Forum Communications Co.’s mobile content platforms.

Forum Communications Co. iPad apps are updated throughout the day and offer a simple, clean presentation of content from their newspapers’ most popular sections, and the apps also include breaking news and video.

In addition, Welle said, the new updates should give the user increased iPad performance.

“We’ve also significantly optimized the apps performance and reduced the amount of resources it uses on the iPad,” Welle said. “This results in a much smoother and faster experience for our readers.”

The new iPad app demonstrates Forum Communications Co.’s commitment to providing the content on the platforms its users desire.

Forum Communications Co. is a multimedia information company based in Fargo. Forum Communications owns dozens of newspapers, websites and television and radio stations in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Forum Communications Co. launches Inforum for iPad app

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Forum Communications Co. has released the Inforum for iPad app.

FARGO, N.D. – Forum Communications Co. has released its new Inforum for iPad app containing the latest news and information from The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.

This new downloadable app features the in-depth news coverage of your local newspaper and packages it for a top-notch user experience on the iPad, making receiving your news more convenient for your busy and mobile lifestyle.

The app can be found in the Apple Store at http://bit.ly/inforum-for-ipad .

The new app is updated throughout the day in a simple and clean presentation with content from Inforum’s most popular sections, and it also includes breaking news and video.

Additionally, the new iPad app allows users to choose whether to consume their news on- or offline.  The introduction of the app is sponsored by Gate City Bank.

The Inforum for iPad app contains content in a variety of categories.

The new iPad app demonstrates Forum Communications Co.’s commitment to providing the content on the platforms its users desire. In its recently released annual state of the news media report, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found that 27 percent of Americans get news on their smart phones or tablets.

Forum Communications Co. releases photo gallery app for iPad

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News Lens app splash page.

FARGO, N.D – Forum Communications Co. announced today that it has released a new iPad app designed to aggregate the work of its dozens of award-winning photojournalists from newspapers throughout the Upper Midwest.”

The new FCC News Lens app contains more than 3,700 photo galleries, comprised of 44,000 photos taken by journalists in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, aggregating the news photography of 30-plus Forum Communications newspapers. And the volume of content is always growing.

More and more readers who are looking for high-quality news and entertainment content are turning to the iPad, which is a fantastic way to view the work that FCC’s photojournalists are producing in hundreds of communities throughout your region. Now, when you’re looking for photos about what’s happening in your community or photos from the big game or even photos of your town’s recent festival, they’ll be immediately accessible at your fingertips on your iPad.

View of the local newspaper menu available in News Lens app.

“This iPad app gives Forum Communications an exciting new platform to display the prize-winning photojournalism that takes place in our communities every day,” said Steve McLister, FCC vice president for print. “We’re proud of the work that our photographers do, and now we’ve found a way to share with you the work that all of our company’s fine photojournalists do, not just the work of your local newspaper professionals.”

The new app is designed to reward the consumer with a memorable experience, offering easy-to-use menus, touch screen navigation, key word searches and large, bold, high-resolution images of the day’s most telling news photos, engaging feature photos and breathtaking special photo projects. You can find the new app and directions on how to download it in the Apple store.

In addition to being a great way to stay in touch with the news generated by FCC’s hundreds of professional journalists, the News Lens also offers advertisers a unique new way to gain exposure to the wide and diverse audience that views our digital products. This new product allows advertisers to use a geo-targeted approach in delivering their message to an audience they know is mobile and tech savvy, capturing for them the users that are most likely to use their services.

An example of the large, high-resolution images available in the News Lens app.

“We strive to give our clients the most unique opportunities to expose their businesses to our wide audience, and the News Lens app certainly is one our most unique,” said Chris Dorsey, FCC digital sales director. “Contact us to learn about combining advertising in the new photo app with advertising on platforms such as the printed newspaper or the paper’s website to deliver the results you’re looking for.”

For more information about using this new content app to promote your business throughout the Upper Midwest, contact FCC Digital Sales Director Chris Dorsey at 701.451.5740 or at cdorsey@forumcomm.com.

For more information about the News Lens, or other FCC digital products in general, contact Digital Content Operations Manager Devlyn Brooks at 701.241.5545 or at devlyn.brooks@fccinteractive.com.

The FCC News Lens app is owned by Forum Communications Co., a multimedia information company based in Fargo, N.D. In addition to digital content apps, Forum Communications offers opportunities to market your business through dozens of newspapers, websites and television and radio stations across the Upper Midwest.

Microsoft series available for Kindle

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The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead’s reporting series regarding the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s entrance into Fargo is available today to read on your Kindle or Kindle app for iPhone, iPad or Droid.

For only 99 cents, reader’s can purchase the entire seven-part series in advance of its complete publication in the newspaper or online.

Kindle download: Vistas and Visions: Microsoft in Fargo

To report the series, The Forum was granted unprecedented access inside Microsoft’s Fargo campus in May and the work is designed to serve as a window into the past, present and future of Microsoft in Fargo.

The Kindle version of the series not only represents a pre-release of this series, but it a great platform for readers to experience this long-form of journalism in its entirety in book form.