Friday, July 28, 2017
How Americans Get Their News
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According to a 2016 report published by the Pew Research Center, Americans show a clear preference (57 percent) for getting their news via television, although the number is significantly lower among younger adults (27 percent), while approximately 40 percent of Americans frequently gets news online. As of 2016, only 20 percent of US adults regularly get news from printed sources such as newspapers, a decrease of 7 percent since 2013 across all age groups. For individuals who do prefer to read the news, 39 percent now prefer to read it online.
The greatest portion (46 percent) of US adults prefer to watch the news as opposed to reading it (35 percent) or listening to it (17 percent), and the portion of Americans who have ever used a mobile device to access news increased from 54 percent in 2013 to 72 percent in 2016.
