US news industry struggling with shift to mobile: study

Washington

THE news industry is struggling with a shift to mobile, getting scant revenues as more readers turn to smartphones and tablets for information, a research report showed on Wednesday.

Those are among the findings of the latest Pew Research Center's State of the News Media report released on Wednesday, highlighting an ongoing shift in the US media industry landscape.

The report found 39 of the top 50 digital news websites had more traffic from mobile devices than from desktop computers in early 2015, although researchers said that people generally spend more time reading news on PCs.

Overall, the news media is seeing much of the same trend as it has over the past few years - declines in…