Pew: More minorities, elderly go online for news
More minorities and older Americans are going online for their news, according to a new Pew study. The percentage of African Americans who regularly go online for news has grown by about half over the past four years (16% to 25%). More generally, the Internet population has broadened to include more older Americans. Nearly two-thirds of Americans in their 50s and early 60s (64%) say they go online, up from 45% in 2000.
Overall online news growth continues: the number of people who go online for news at least three days a week has grown from 23% in 2000 to 29% today. But it's yet to become as much a part of most Americans' daily routine as watching TV news, reading the newspaper or listening to radio news, Pew says. Asked about their news use on a typical day ("yesterday"), just under a quarter of Americans (24%) say they went online for the news. That compares with 60% who watched TV news on the previous day; 42% who say they read a newspaper; and 40% who listened to news on the radio. About the same number of people say the read a magazine the previous day (25%) as went online for news.
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