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Pew Internet Center Study: Internet 3rd Most Popular News Platform
March 4, 2010
The Pew Internet Center recently published a study on "Understanding the Participatory News Consumer", chock full of fun facts on our internet use. Here's a few that stood out to Dewey:
- 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.
- Six in ten (59%) get news from a combination of online and offline sources on a typical day.
- 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones.
- 8% of internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them.
- 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.
To see the full study, please see: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Online-News.aspx
