The Pew Research Center
has compiled some key findings about
the way Americans get news online as well as how digital newsrooms in the U.S. are doing.
The
findings are drawn from recent Pew
Research Center
surveys and analyses. Pew offers them on the heels of the recent Online News
Association annual conference, which took place in New Orleans Sept. 12–14. Here are some of the
findings Pew highlighted:
• The
percent of Americans who prefer to get their news online is on the rise. In 2018, 34 percent of U.S. adults
said they preferred to get news online, Pew says. That’s compared with 28
percent in 2016. TV is still the most popular source of news, with 44 percent
of Americans expressing a preference for TV.
• An almost
equal percent of Americans prefer to get their local news online as
prefer the TV. Roughly
four-in-ten U.S.
adults (37 percent) say they prefer to get their local news via online
channels, similar to the percent that prefers TV (41 percent).
•
Employment in digital newsrooms rose 82 percent between 2008 and 2018. The number of digital-native newsroom employees
went from some 7,400 to around 13,500 during this 10-year timeframe. This boost
of about 6,100 total jobs did not make up for the loss of about 33,000
newspaper newsroom jobs during the same time.
• More
Americans get their news on social media than from print papers. In 2018, one in five adults said they
often get news on social media. Facebook is the top social media site used for
news by Americans: About four in ten Americans (43 percent) get news on this
site.
• Americans
are skeptical of the information they see on social media. Most of those who tend
to get news on social media (57 percent) say they expect the news they see on
these platforms to be largely inaccurate.
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