Pew: Internet now third most popular news platform

The Pew Internet and American Life Project is out with their latest report on how Americans consume news. There are many highlights in there, so I’ll just mention a few that are direct quotes from the report’s summary. I would strongly recommend that you read the rest for yourself. The internet is now the third most popular news platform, behind local television news and national television news 50% [of Americans] say they read news in a local newspaper The majority of online news consumers (57%) say they routinely rely on just two to five websites for their news > 75% of online news consumers say they get news forwarded through email or posts on social networking sites and 52% say they share links to news with others via those means