The rapid growth of smartphones and electronic tablets is making the Internet the destination of choice for consumers looking for news, a report released Monday said.
Local, network and cable television news, newspapers, radio and magazines all lost audience last year, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a research organization that evaluates and studies the performance of the press. News consumption online increased 17 percent last year from the year before, the project said in its eighth annual State of the News Media survey.
The percentage of people who say they get news online at least three times a week surpassed newspapers for the first time. It was second only to local TV news as the most popular news platform and seems poised to pass that medium, too, project director Tom Rosenstiel said. Local TV news has been the most popular format since the 1960s, when its growth was largely responsible for the death of afternoon newspapers, he said.
“It was a milestone year,” he said.
People are just becoming accustomed to having the Internet available in their pockets on phones or small tablets, he said. In December, 41 percent of Americans said they got most of their news about national and international issues on the Internet, more than double the 17 percent who said that a year earlier, the report said.
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"The percentage of people who say they get news online at least three times a week surpassed newspapers for the first time."
True–but most online readers are still getting their news from traditional outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC: http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/news-websites
James your omission of Fox News i will just assume is due to your lack of knowledge on this issue!
If you follow the link you'll see Fox News ranks 10th, and I didn't see a need to include all of the top 10 to make the point I made.
Hay Hay Teachers-Azz James Bond Only Reads George Soros/Obamacare Polls, They Get That Free Obama Kool-Aid, Yikeess, Drink-Up Teach. God Bless America And Sarah Palin Fox News Rules.
infowars.com is a grassroots news outlet based in Texas and is not sold out to any of the current power-structures that influence mainstream news sources. Believe it or not, even with Fox, their second largest shareholder is Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who wants sharia law in America. infowars is a grassroots news source. I encourage anyone who is interested in the truth to check it out. They interview experts and insiders on a daily basis, so they break many of their own news stories. They are on the cutting edge.
Infowars? Really? Truther Alex Jones' site is perfect for conspiracy theorists, but as a source of news it's hardly "cutting edge."
Yes sir, Alex Jones is on the cutting edge. You have not impressed me as one who strives for the truth, so your opinion does not carry much weight with me. Those who want to spread lies and disinformation tend not to like him. Have a good day.
"Those who want to spread lies and disinformation"
Jones is a "truther" promoter of "FEMA camps" who refers to Sarah Palin as "a total airhead puppet." OK, so maybe he's not totally nuts, come to think of it.