Back in February, Clyde Bentley (then-fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, and current journalism instructor at the Univ. of Missouri) caused a stir in the news business. He recommended a fast-moving, demanding regimen to help news organizations get up to speed with mobile media by 2013—the date by which Gartner Research predicted that mobile devices would overtake laptops as the most common web access device.
Mobile technology moves even faster than the web, so I decided to check in with Bentley to see whether he thought his roadmap to 2013 needed any updates, and what kinds of progress he sees news orgs making on mobile…
“On the app front, I had recommended that news orgs which create mobile apps should include apps for the Symbian platform. Well, Symbian pretty much got dropped off the map this year, at least for the US market,” said Bentley, referring to Nokia’s recently confused smartphone operating system strategy.
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