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From New York to San Francisco, radio’s monolithic news brands were largely built before the widespread availability of news on the web and smartphones.  It’s something officials at Radio One acknowledged after making the painful decision to pull the plug on “News 92.”  “People are getting their news via mobile devices that they travel with,” VP Yashima AziLove says.

via Inside Radio, The Most Trusted News in Radio.