Study: Websites Beating Newspapers in Popularity Contest
Study: Websites Beating Newspapers in Popularity Contest
Posted 03/01/2010 at 8:01am
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This probably won't come as a surprise to anyone with an Internet connection, but according to a new survey by Pew Research Center, online news has supplanted newspapers as the third most popular form of news, trailing only local and national TV stations.
"News awareness is becoming an anytime, anywhere, any device activity for those who want to stay informed," PRC said.
No single site dominates the online news scene, though PRC did say that news aggregators such as Google News and AOL were more popular than other outlets. Even still, over 90 percent of the survey's respondents said they get their news from more than one method, and 57 percent said they browse between two and five websites for their daily dose of world events.
"Americans have become news grazers both on and offline -- but within limits," said Amy Mitchell, deputy director for the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Tekzel
March 01, 2010 at 10:00am
I suppose I'm not in their target audience, I have never been a big consumer of news. I'm just not nosey enough to care about other folks business, which makes up the vast majority of news. The few things that would, in some way, affect me are too tedious to parse out of the non-interactive news sources. So, the only thing that makes sense for me is online news. Mostly, though, I just stick to a few tech sites like MPC here. The rest is just bad news and worse news.
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