What are some well done mobile news sites? NHK's is good. Even on GSM that shit loads in a millisecond.
http://k.nhk.jp/daily/
The BBC's however, well this is just not how you build a site to load on the tiny'est screens that people actually use.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news#0
Huge banner, desktop sized image, another small image attached to the headline of every story. No just no.