The New News Junkie Is Online and On the Phone

The Internet is the most popular source of news after television, and reading the news is becoming increasingly social, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project examining how people consume news.

The Internet now outranks print newspapers and radio in popularity as a source of news. Sixty-one percent of Americans said they read news online, while 54 percent said they listen to news on the radio, 50 percent read a local newspaper and just 17 percent read a national newspaper. One-third of cellphone owners read the news on their phones.

[Source: New York Times]