Monday, November 24, 2008

How people get their news

Steve Hermann over at the BBC editors blog has conducted a survey on how people digest their news

As part of the research, volunteers were asked to fill in news diaries, drawing a chart to show when and where they normally get their news.


And the results

Most people were getting their news and information in a whole variety of different ways and from different places in the course of a day or a week
• The researchers described each person as having a "news ecosystem", where an individual might read several papers, hear news on the radio, look at various websites and/or TV channels for news
• The habits of the modern news consumer were described as "increasingly eclectic and multiplatform"
• As for mobiles, people were typically using them for headlines, major stories and areas of specific interest

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