The Chicago Tribune News Reader (free, iTunes link) offers the latest news from the Chicago Tribune newspapers. The app has two kinds of navigation: swipe and list view. With swipe, headlines can be browsed by swiping your finger right to left. The list view shows all the headlines at once in a list and allows for quick scanning. There are 9 categories of news to browse through:
- top stories
- entertainment
- living
- local news
- nation/world
- opinions
- politics
- travel
There is a separate app for sports called the Chicago Tribune Sports Reader (free, iTunes link). The app shows the latest scores at the bottom of the screen. You can scan through the latest sports headlines by swiping or in a basic list view. There is a focus on local sports, but the app also shows national headlines. The sports reader only shows today’s news, there is no way to browse previous day’s scores or headlines.