How the young consume the news
A panel of college age students at the Online News Association conference said they are interested in national and international news and get it from podcasts, Slate and RSS feeds.
When asked if any of them ever read print, there was silence.
"Your hands get all inky black."
"If I am reading a book or a magazine I always wish I had that edit/find feature, but I don't, so I stick to online."
"I solid magazines for a magazine drive for my school - but I didn't read any."
They all said they prefer to read their news in text.
"I prefer text. Because if you donb't get it the first time, you can read it again. And again."
"When you do slide shows, don't do audio slideshows...I can't listen to audio at work, so I shy away from that."
One said they had to show her mom how to use the web. "I honestly don't know how she's able to get through life."
"I don't give any of my personal information online...but my mom..."
"I don't use e-mail, because it's too slow."
"When your computer goes out, your life sort of shuts down."
"The only thing I really use blogs for is my entertainment news, because who really cases if it's true or not."
"You've got to link to an article in mainstream media to have credibility, and then you can say whatever you want about it."
"We're not going to pay for something online. I think it's generally agreed that if you pay for something online, you're a sucker."
"They're was a really intersting story in the New York Times about preying mantises biting off the heads of their male mates during sex, and my friends loved that and couldn't stip talking about it.... And it was a serious scientific story....People think they need to dumb down or sensationalize news for young people, but they're wrong. It just needs to be interesting."
"Read the whole thing?"
"News is only fun when it's out of the ordinary."
"I'm not going to read some long story about Dafur unless you have some sort of 200 word explainer."
"I don't want dumbed down information... You're going to want short and concise, but sometimes I'm going to want more deeper information.."
"We don't understand why you guys don't get it."
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3 comments about 'How the young consume the news'Proof read, proof read! (Interesting, though)
Posted by Nick at October 7, 2006 4:48 PM
lots of errors in this one, but great story!
Posted by Rick at October 8, 2006 2:46 AM
In an ideal world, every editor of every conventional newspaper will read this entry and be moved by the experience.
When the next generation is quite literally abandoning the paper format, simply shifting some content over to a web site and proclaiming the paper to be leading-edge is hardly the response that will ensure the paper's survival.
As I watch paper after paper and chain after chain fail to heed these simple yet profound warnings, I wonder how journalist-leaders who are supposedly so worldly can so thoroughly miss the new media boat.
They can't say they weren't warned.
Carmi
http://writteninc.blogspot.com
Posted by Carmi at October 10, 2006 3:19 PM
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