December 29, 2008 by Mark Isle
This has been the way the wind has been blowing for a few years now, with websites and online arms of newspapers improving all the time and circulations of traditional newspapers dropping. Now, however, it would appear to be official. A survey conducted by the Research Centre for the People and the Press, an arm of the Pew Charitable Trust, has revealed that use of Internet news sources has eclipses use of traditional print media for the first time.
Just under 1,500 US adults were asked a series of questions about the major news stories of the year and how the participants kept themselves up to date. Acording to the survey, the internet appears to have made a huge leap forward with 40 per cent of those asked saying that it’s where they get the majority of their news, almost double the figure from a similar survey conducted by the group last year.
Conversely, printed newspapers held steady at around 35 per cent, beaten into third place for the first time by the internet and television, which 70 per cent* of those asked claimed provided most of their news.
*The wording of the survey allowed participants to choose more than one source for ‘most’ of their news, this is why the totals don’t add up to 100.
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