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
Asking the right questions is critical in getting compelling answers from sources, as all reporters know. A problem with online comments is that they are often unfocused and off-topic given the open nature of many commenting systems.
Asking the right questions is critical in getting compelling answers from sources, as all reporters know.
Yahoo! researcher Yury Lifshits has built a tool called Interview2010 that aims to help get better answers from readers through a structured question and answer system.
[]1Things got a little heated at the Hacks/Hackers event on the Future of Personalized News.
After founders Dan Olsen of yourversion and Ethan Gahng of lazyfeed talked about providing relevant stories to readers, some in the crowd pressed them about how to pay the creators who craft all that quality media that audiences want.
But as Dan and Ethan pointed out, they aren’t making any money themselves and are still trying to figure out their business model.
Thanks to all who attended the Hacks/Hackers meetup on the Future of Personalized News! I’ll be writing more about the event in a separate post — things got a bit heated at times and there was some good debate about how to ensure quality content survives in the aggregation age. The archived livestream is below, and here’s a written summary on Google Buzz by Abe Epton of Google News. (thanks Abe!