Digital News Landscape

How news consumers (and now news participators) have changed in the digital age

Senior Research Specialist Amanda Lenhart's presentation, "Twitter and Status Updating: Demographics, Mobile Access and News Consumption," given at AoIR 10.0 in Milwaukee, WI on October 8, 2009.

Pew Internet Project data about changes in the online world, different technology users, and how those changes might affect public radio programming.

Three-quarters of online economic users go online to relax and take their minds off of the recession. Fully 88% of 18-29 year old online economic users look to the internet to relax.

The number of online adults who use classified ads websites, such as Craigslist, more than doubled from 2005 to 2009.

A majority of American adults went online in 2008 to keep informed about political developments and to get involved with the election.

In an industry that is constantly changing, how is radio faring? In what ways has technology affected how people get their news on the radio? Read the Audio Chapter of the State of the News Media 2009 for answers.

The growth in readership online has not offset the decline in print for newspapers.

Google has started placing ads on Google News pages. How's that working out?

This speech pulls together Pew Internet findings and analysis about how people get news and relate to news items in the digital age.