2008 Pew Study: Online News Overtakes Print Journalism

The Rise of Digital Journalism from 2007 to 2008 and beyond

Jim Turner of the popular technology news blog Ars Technica reports:

People who have followed the development of the Internet are probably well aware of the Pew Charitable Trust, which has tracked the growth of the web through its Internet & American Life Project. But a separate arm of the Pew, the Research Center for the People & the Press has uncovered some data relevant to the online world when surveying the US population about the sources of its news. According to the group’s latest survey, performed in early December, the use of Internet news sources has passed that of newspapers for the first time.
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The survey was performed from December 3rd through 7th, and it involved 1,489 adult participants. Most of the questions involved perceptions of the major news stories of the year, but several focused on the participants’ source of news. Here, Internet news sources had very significant gains, with 40 percent of the population saying it’s where they get “most” of their national and international news. That’s a significant leap from September of 2007, when only 24 percent had called it the source of most of their news.

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