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ABSTRACT
The smartphone is now an indispensable part of everyday life. Such mobile devices are increasingly used to consume news. Newspapers have embraced the mobile devices to augment their print and online versions. Newspapers, however, appear to offer different news content to mobile newsreaders when compared to their own print and online content. Mobile newsreaders are provided significantly more sensational, breaking, and entertainment-oriented news. Mobile devices on the mobile web also provide significantly less public affairs content as top stories. Analyzing a sample of 50 U.S. newspapers over a six-month period, this content analysis quantifies the heterogeneity of news content in print, online, and mobile platforms.
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank research assistants Alec Tefertiller, Sarah K. Simon, Tricia Onufer, Mariam D. Shakarisaz and Samantha Davis for their contribution to this project.
Disclosure Statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes
1 All 50 mobile and online sites were revisited in 2017 and compared to the screengrabs of the sites during the study period and were found to have no significant organizational or interface differences.
2 In 2012, the Pew Research Center reported that 61% of Americans got their news through a browser on their smartphone, 28% mostly through apps and 11% used both equally (Rosenstiel and Mitchell Citation2012).