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The Toronto Star has announced today free digital subscriptions for all post-secondary students in Canada, ahead of this October's federal election: We are calling this the Vote2019 Offer, which basically means we want Canada’s newest group of eligible voters to be informed since they will have a say in how we shape our country on...

Canadians finally got their hands on the Apple News app yesterday—officially—which includes the new premium Apple News+ subscription for $12.99 per month, which includes magazines and also access to the Toronto Star. If you’ve been trying unsuccessfully to find all the articles from the Toronto Star in Apple News+, you’re not going crazy. It’s because...

Last month it was announced the Toronto Star’s digital daily newspaper experiment, Star Touch, was set to end on August 1, 2017. The $20 million experiment had high expectations to be successful as it was based on the same iPad app as Quebec’s wildly popular La Presse. Parent company TorStar announced iPad support would be...

The Toronto Star now has a home on Apple iBooks. Users can now find the books that the Star's critics are talking about and recommending to readers. The content from the Toronto Star is Come back every week for a fresh selection. Celebrate Canada 150 by picking up a new discovery or revisiting a classic like Richard...

Despite failing to gain attention from its users, the Star Touch tablet app is receiving millions of dollars in funding from the company that owns the Toronto Star. In a statement, Torstar Corp.'s acting president and publisher David Holland told analysts that "We [the company] remains committed to the initiative." The app is growing at a...

In September 2015 the Star launched its Toronto Star Touch tablet app, which gave a readers an easy way to enjoy reading the news and viewing interactive content. On Friday, the app celebrated its one year anniversary. In a blog post, editor Michael Cooke said: “It’s been a glorious year for Star journalism on this exciting...

On Tuesday, the Toronto Star announced that it will cut over 50 jobs across their corporation, with 45 job cuts occurring in the Toronto Star newsroom. The newsroom layoffs affect 26 temporary staff, most of whom work on the Star’s tablet app Toronto Star Touch, and 19 permanent full-time employees. In a memo, Toronto Star...

The Toronto Star Touch app for iPad and Android tablets has been downloaded more than 200,000 times by readers. Toronto Star Touch was selected as one of the best apps of 2015 by Apple and has maintained four and five star reviews. The app is now averaging above 45,000 user sessions every weekday and above 50,000...

Toronto Star’s recently introduced Star Touch app for iPads and Android tablets has been downloaded more than 100,000 times by readers in its first six weeks after launch, the publication has revealed. The newspaper has also announced that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is writing an exclusive Christmas Day column for the Star Touch app that "outlines his thoughts about family,...

Recently the Toronto Star launched Star Touch for iPad, its digital newspaper based on the success of La Presse. Star editor Michael Cooke spoke with Bell Media radio station 104.5 CHUM FM earlier this week, and shared details about the app’s launch. Cooke told the “Roger & Marilyn” show on Tuesday morning the free Star...

Last fall, the Toronto Star detailed how it would end its digital paywall and launch a free tablet edition, based on their partnership with La Presse, which was able to launch their own successful version in 2013. Now, Star Touch for iPad has launched, which is based on La Press+ (460,000 weekly readers). The Star...

The Toronto Star has announced it will be ending its short-lived digital paywall (launched in August 2013) and moving to a free tablet edition next year, taking full advantage of a new partnership with La Presse, which launched a successful free digital newspaper via Apple’s Newsstand at the cost of $40 million back in 2013....