[eccr] Young people turn to web for news

Young people turn to web for news
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Articles in both the UK's Guardian and America's Newsday claim that
the web is becoming a more popular news source than print -
particularly among young people.  The Media Guardian published a piece
by Paul Carr, editor of thefridaything.co.uk, pointing out that Heat
magazine's story on Madonna's third pregnancy - which the UK magazine
claimed was an exclusive - had actually been published on his web site
four days earlier.  Mr Carr said:  "The good news is that the
traditional press can no longer pretend that the internet doesn't
exist. ... The hundreds of emails we've received from Heat readers in
the past week show that people do notice when a story already been
broken online is claimed as an 'exclusive' in print."  Newsday's
article looked at how young people are now getting their news almost
exclusively from the internet.  In recent research in the New York
City metropolitan area, 80 per cent of 18 to 34 year-olds cited the
internet as their main source of news.

Source: http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story569.html - Journalism.co.uk

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