Friday, April 06, 2012

MEDIA - Mobile News Consumers

"For Troubled Media Industry, Some Hope as Mobile News Consumption Grows" PBS Newshour 4/5/2012

Excerpt

JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Barely a week goes by without more bad news about the financial condition of traditional media, but a recent report from the Pew Research Center found some encouraging developments amid continuing problems.

Some of the key findings: Consumers are increasingly using mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to add to the amount of news they read. They also are finding some of the news through Facebook and Twitter links, but not in huge numbers yet.

At the same time, newspapers are increasingly trying to make money off the content that they provide on the Web, even as print circulation and ad revenue continue to decline.

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