5 Mobile Stats Worth Mentioning to Journalists
Why
#mobile for#newschallenge? There are 6B mobile devices worldwide & they’re much more than just phones kng.ht/QyoJTK— Knight Foundation (@knightfdn) August 15, 2012
Shortly after recently announcing the theme of this year’s third News Challenge installment — “mobile” — the Knight Foundation tweeted an impressive stat backing up reasoning for its choice: there are 6 billion mobile devices worldwide.
Billion. With a “B.”
The number may be an eye-opener — like anything with the word “billion,” let alone six — but discussion on how to best use mobile to further the goals of journalism of course isn’t new.
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