News outlets face losing control to Apple, Facebook and Google

With smartphones and tablets becoming the devices of choice for accessing content, traditional news organisations are going to find it harder to survive

Traditional news outlets face an increasingly uphill struggle to make money as readers move to mobile devices, giving Facebook, Google and Apple increasing control, according to a new international survey.

The use of mobile devices to access news on a weekly basis surged in the last year from 37% of respondents to almost half (46%), according to a 12-country report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ).