The increasing use of camera and video capabilities has already opened up new opportunities for phone users to contribute to newscoverage on TV and online.
Most Indian newsTV channels and websites are giving wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Delhi gang rape accused Ram Singh in the capital's Tihar jail.
Coverage of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, especially on cable TV and leading news websites, is increasingly driven by the campaigns themselves, resulting in one of the most negative elections this country has seen in decades.
Also working against prior Olympic broadcasts was the fact that they took place several time zones away, so that most TVcoverage was taped and sometimes aired as much as 24 hours after competition results were already in the news.