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. Some other interesting finding were...
- 92% of Americans surveyed use multiple places & platforms to get their daily news
- local & national television stations still come out ahead of the internet as news sources
- 59% of Americans surveyed use both online & offline news sources
- 33% of cell phone owners access news on their phones
- 28% of internet users have customized homepages with news sources (e.g. iGoogle)
- 37% of internet users have actually participated in news dissemination, creation, or commenting
- 75% of those who get news online find news through email forwards or through friends’ posts on social networking sites
- 52% of those who get news online also share links to news with others through email or social networking
- 55% report that it is now easier to keep up with news and information than it was five years ago, and yet…
- 70% feel overwhelmed by the amount of news and information available
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