Giving Readers Control: Announcing Two New Options in The New York Times iOS App

I visited Cuba in November of 2016. While I was in Havana, Fidel Castro passed away. Footage of his life and favorable testimony played on a loop on the government television for days, but there was very little coverage of the reaction from the outside world.

I was not able to retrieve fresh news using the New York Times native app because my hotel network logged me out every time I attempted to update content, seemingly because the amount of data was too taxing.

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