Irish media start-up Noa, which narrates written journalism in audio form, has seen a surge in subscribers since it began covering the coronavirus outbreak earlier this year. It presents text from leading news publishers in an audio format that is made available via an app. The text is read by narrators, with a number of leading publications available on the service, including Bloomberg, the Financial Times, the London Independent and The Irish Times. Our listeners, who skew far younger than your average digital news subscriber, don’t just subscribe for the human-narrated articles alone,” Mr Hickey said. Noa provides the narrated articles for The Irish Times’ “Listen” feature, which was recently introduced.

Source: The Irish Times March 16, 2020 15:22 UTC