Mobile news refers to both the delivery and creation of news using mobile devices.

Mobile news delivery

Today, mobile news delivery can be done via

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, by specialized applications, or using mobile versions of media websites. According to a recent market study across six countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, and US), 16.9% of consumers access news and information via mobile devices, either via browser, downloaded application, or SMS alerts. The demand for mobile news delivery is growing quickly, with 107 percent growth in daily access to mobile news in the last year alone. For example, the

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mobile site registered 19 million views in May 2008, compared to 500,000 in January 2007. July 18, 2011, Time Warner announced that news coverage from CNN and Headline News will be streamed live over the Internet and available for people to view on their laptops, smartphones, or tablets if they subscribe to certain paid TV services. From 2014 many media companies launched their native mobile application includin
Newsdash
to engage global users by delivering quick and short news of their choice.

Mobile news creation

Mobile news also has the potential to place the power of breaking news reporting in the hands of small communities and facilitate a much better exchange of information among users due to the ease of usage of mobile phones compared with conventional media such as radio, TV or newspapers, though issues of quality, journalistic standards and professionalism are of concern to some critics..

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and full featured

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also facilitate activism and

citizen journalism Citizen journalism, also known as collaborative media, participatory journalism, democratic journalism, guerrilla journalism or street journalism, is based upon public citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, a ...

. In addition to individual efforts, major media outlets like

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, and

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are attempting to harness the power of citizen journalists. The creation of mobile news was fuelled first by the popularity of receivin
text alerts
and then hugely accelerated whe
mobile companies embraced social media
making content creation easy and accessible.

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Mobile news delivery

Mobile news creation

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