Newsy, a mobile video news service, announced today it has closed a $1.5 million dollar round of funding. The investment comes on the heels of the explosion of its mobile apps. Newsy recently won the Appy Award for ‘Best News App and its apps are consistently among the highest rated news apps on the iPad, iPhone, iPod and Android devices.
The Newsy iPad, iPhone and iPod apps are now fully Airplay-enabled – allowing users to stream Newsy content to their Apple TV and view next generation news on their television in stunning quality. Apple just added Newsy’s iPad app to its “Great Airplay-Enabled Apps” category in the App Store.

Newsy can be downloaded here.