For first time, online news consumers outnumber those newspaper readers

Andrew Malcolm
March 15, 2011

Let's agree just between us not to tell our family members in the kitchen reading yesterday's news in today's newspaper.

But according to a major new study of how Americans use news media by the thoughtful folks over at the Pew Research Center, those newspaper readers have now been surpassed among news consumers.

For the first time in history, a larger percentage of Americans (46%) get their news online than get their news on that paper stuff that leaves their fingers ink-smudged (40%). the rest


Pew Research Center: State of the News Media 2011