
This year's best new iPad apps by U.S. magazines and newspapers came from a diverse group of publishers, including a serious business weekly, a monthly about easy-to-prepare meals, beauty and fitness titles and three metro dailies, according to McPheters & Company's iMonitor service.
Publishers' 10 best iPad apps from 2011 -- presented in alphabetical order, because they scored identically or very close together in iMonitor's quality rankings -- are: