Understanding the Participatory News Consumer
There are a number of interesting datapoints in this new survey of Americans’ news consumption from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Several commentators have noted that the Internet has now surpassed newspapers as a source of information. However, what most interests RoadMAP is the fact that local television remains at the top. This does not appear to change any time soon.
Understanding the Participatory News Consumer
The overwhelming majority of Americans (92%) use multiple platforms to get their daily news, according to a new survey conducted jointly by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The internet is now the third most-popular news platform, behind local and national television news and ahead of national print newspapers, local print newspapers and radio. Getting news online fits into a broad pattern of news consumption by Americans; six in ten (59%) get news from a combination of online and offline sources on a typical day.
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