Brian Stelter, who used to blog for TVNewser.com was hired by The New York Times last year as a media reporter. As part of his new beat, Stelter has a good piece today documenting the way younger media consumers are digesting their news. Social networking sites like Facebook and viral video clearinghouses like YouTube have become not just convenient, but exceedingly popular destinations for campaign videos that are too long for TV:
A December survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press looked broadly at how media were being consumed this campaign. In the most striking finding, half of respondents over the age of 50 and 39 percent of 30- to 49-year-olds reported watching local television news regularly for campaign news, while only 25 percent of people under 30 said they did.
Fully two-thirds of Web users under 30 say they use social networking sites, while fewer than 20 percent of older users do.In related news, TechPresident reports that nearly 4 million people have watched Obama's Philadelphia speech on race online.
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