The W3C, the international body that formulates web standards, has come up with a set of extended mobile web best practices guidelines, that could prove particularly handy to news sites because of the range of content they deliver to different kinds of mobile devices.
The W3C had come up with a set of guidelines in 2008 [...]

The W3C recently published a new standard called EMMA that facilitates diverse forms of user interaction, apart from those provided by the keyboard and mouse.
EMMA, the Extensible MultiModal Annotation Markup Language, makes it possible to develop  rich Web applications that will accept different kinds of inputs like speech, handwriting and gestures and provide  the output [...]

 
To add to my pervious post on mobile news sites, here’s some solid advice from A List Apart on  the benefit of going mobile-specific in design.
"Ideally, site authors would be able to meet the growing demand for a quality mobile experience without changing a line of code. But the reality is that a site [...]

The mobile web is not that big a deal for news sites right now, but trends do indicate that it will become popular as mobile phones get better and better. Statistics quoted by  a Newspaper Association of America (NAA) report some time ago indicate that those who access news on mobile browsers range between 7 [...]

W3C, the organisation that defines web standards, has come up with a useful ‘mobile OK checker’ that reveals whether a site is mobile friendly. It is pretty easy to use; one has to enter the URL and just hit the check button. And the checker then generates its evaluation of the page. You don’t have [...]

Source: W3C
I had listed some points from the W3C’s mobile web best design practice guidelines in a previous post. I will start with the ones not touched upon and append the other points towards the end (which will make up the full list):
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The W3C, the body that mandates web standards, had come out with a set of Mobile web best practice guidelines some weeks ago. Meant to guide those who design and deliver content for mobile websites, the guidelines should be of particular interest to managers of news websites because some of the general principles involved may [...]