News? I don’t need no stinkin’ news!
About one in five Americans don’t read, watch or listen to news on a typical day, according to the latest biennial news consumption survey released by the Pew Research Center. For some sectors of the news industry, that could be considered the good news …
Here are the 15-year trend lines from survey questions designed to track where people regularly go for news:
- Newspaper readership declined from 58 to 34 per cent
- Radio news listeners declined from 47 to 35 per cent since
- Local TV news viewership declined from 77 to 52 per cent
- Network news viewership declined from 60 to 29 per cent
More recent formats for news delivery, however, are doing better:
- Morning news show viewership held fairly steady since 1998
- Cable TV news viewership increased from 33 to 39 per cent since 2002
- Online news viewership jumped from 2 to 37 per cent since 1995
There’s much more to be found in the 129-page survey report. Findings will post a few more highlights during the coming days. In the meantime, click here for: A summary of the report or the full report (PDF).
About one in five Americans don’t read, watch or listen to news on a typical day, according to the latest biennial news consumption survey released by the Pew Research Center. For some sectors of the news industry, that could be considered the good news …
Here are the 15-year trend lines from survey questions designed to track where people regularly go for news:
- Newspaper readership declined from 58 to 34 per cent
- Radio news listeners declined from 47 to 35 per cent since
- Local TV news viewership declined from 77 to 52 per cent
- Network news viewership declined from 60 to 29 per cent
More recent formats for news delivery, however, are doing better:
- Morning news show viewership held fairly steady since 1998
- Cable TV news viewership increased from 33 to 39 per cent since 2002
- Online news viewership jumped from 2 to 37 per cent since 1995
There’s much more to be found in the 129-page survey report. Findings will post a few more highlights during the coming days. In the meantime, click here for: A summary of the report or the full report (PDF).
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