ABSTRACT
The onset of digitalization has caused the media to adapt their products and workflows to reach the audience through all channels and devices to increase public accessibility to news. A paradigm shift that has become remarkable with the evolution of smartphones. Based on selected case studies from the JoIn-DemoS project, this chapter outlines the path that has led media in Austria, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom to focus their efforts on adapting to “mobile/live journalism” and shows that there are three factors that have driven innovation: (1) the advancement of technology, providing mobile devices with greater processing capacity; (2) the change in user habits, ratified in the data, to which the journalistic companies have access; and (3) the prevailing need to broadcast (communicate) live facilitating the participation of the audience, especially with the development of breaking news. However, the results indicated that there are a series of barriers that obstruct innovation generated by the difficulties that journalistic professionals have in changing inherited structures and work processes focused on paper and analogue desktop practices.
