Where Do You Get Your News?

TV is not dead! It’s still a popular news source. But thefastest-growing platform is digital, especially tablets. People acknowledgegoing after news recommendations from social-media sources, but they actuallyprefer to find stories on their own from news sites like The New York Times and CNN.com. I used to get most of my news from AOL, but once they started running teases instead of news headlines, and they focused more on JayLo than Afghanistan, I started looking elsewhere.

Here's more about our news habits: 

•         About ¼ ofU.S. adults get their news from more than one device. 

•         Nearly half(44%) own a smart phone, and 18%, a tablet.  

•         Most (70%)get news from a desktop computer, but also more than half (56%) viatheir tablets (note some overlap here).

•         Of peopleemployed full-time, more than 3/5 (64%) own a tablet computer.

•         People preferTwitter over Facebook as a news source.

(Source: The Pew Research Center’s Projectfor Excellence in Journalism )