---
title: "Digital: As Mobile Grows Rapidly, the Pressures on News Intensify"
description: "For more than a decade, as the desktop/laptop era of computing took hold, news organizations were at a severe disadvantage competing against a raft of financially and technologically stronger tech companies. Now, the rapid advance of the mobile era threatens a whole new level of upheaval, as both the costs and technological challenges of keeping up in the swiftly evolving news ecosystem multiply."
date: "2013-03-19"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2013/03/19/digital-as-mobile-grows-rapidly-the-pressures-on-news-intensify/"
categories:
  - "Digital News Landscape"
  - "Mobile"
  - "Social Media"
  - "Social Media & the News"
  - "State of the News Media (Project)"
---

# Digital: As Mobile Grows Rapidly, the Pressures on News Intensify