One-third of adults under 30 get news on social networks now

[littlemissmartypants]

Pew
For American adults under 30, social media has far surpassed newspapers and has equaled TV as a primary source of daily news, according to a new study of news consumption trends by the Pew Research Center for the People & The Press.

The study found 33 percent of those young adults got news from social networks the day before, while 34 percent watched TV news and just 13 percent read print or digital newspaper content.

And in mobile news consumption:

17 percent of all Americans got news on a mobile device yesterday.
Among the people who own smartphones, 31 percent got news on them yesterday.
These trends are not unrelated. The growth of mobile media is a major driver of the growth in social media, the study finds. People who go online with mobile devices are three times more likely to get news from social media as those who only use the desktop Web (30 percent vs. 9 percent).

Twitter users more likely to connect with journalists

Twitter’s overall usage among the American population remains limited, but growing. And those who do use Twitter “are increasingly getting news and sharing news stories with others,” the study finds.


Only 11 percent of all Americans get news from Twitter, but among Twitter users a majority get news there and tweet news.

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One effect of that difference is that Twitter users connect more with journalists and news organizations.

“More than a third (36%) of those with Twitter accounts use them to follow news organizations or journalists,” the study says. “On social networking sites, 19% of users say they got information there from news organizations or journalists.”

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/189776/one-third-of-adults-under-30-get-news-on-social-networks-now/

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[glowing]

1. Just barely. Only by 3 yrs.

In another couple of years the under 40 crowd will mainly be Internet and some tv that they purposely watch like Rachel
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[Proud Public Servant]

2. But we need to remember what this means

My 22-year-old daughter is someone who gets her news almost exclusively from Twitter. But what that means is that she's subscribed to a huge number of news feeds (NPR, BBC, NYT, etc.) and so sees stories when they post them, rather than going to their sites or tuning them in. I dare say that she reads more, and more varied, news than most people over 30, myself included; when I realized that, I had her start easing me into Twitter (which has been slow going, I'll admit).

[Posteritatis]

3. Considering where social media itself gets its news, I don't really see the big deal here

Quite a few of my friends on Facebook get a decent chunk of their daily news from me - I post interesting things there as I come across them in my daily trawl.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. The rest get it from Stewart or Leno.

...or Fox.