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December 28th, 2008, 04:16 AM
For the first time, more Americans are getting their news online than from traditional ink and paper.
In an apparently sharp shift in habits during 2008, the Washington-based Pew Research Center found that the number of consumers using the web as a main news source surged from 24% to 40% in a year, overtaking the 35% who rely on newspapers.
The change is yet another blow to the newspaper industry. Papers across the US are cutting jobs and trimming costs as they try to adjust to a collapse in advertising revenue.
In the meantime, some newspapers have bent over backwards to give readers what they want -- increased focus on hyper local news, incorporated blogs and citizen journalism into their operations, created young reader-specific products, utilized more video and audio into their web sites, along with, mobile phone applications....
Source (http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/6319)
In an apparently sharp shift in habits during 2008, the Washington-based Pew Research Center found that the number of consumers using the web as a main news source surged from 24% to 40% in a year, overtaking the 35% who rely on newspapers.
The change is yet another blow to the newspaper industry. Papers across the US are cutting jobs and trimming costs as they try to adjust to a collapse in advertising revenue.
In the meantime, some newspapers have bent over backwards to give readers what they want -- increased focus on hyper local news, incorporated blogs and citizen journalism into their operations, created young reader-specific products, utilized more video and audio into their web sites, along with, mobile phone applications....
Source (http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/6319)