Remember the stereotypical sitcom father who was always shown ritually smoking a pipe and reading the newspaper?
That’s a far cry from today’s young news consumers, according to an Associated Press survey of 18-to-34-year-olds from around the world, which studied the habits of 18 young people in Houston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Brighton, UK, and Hyderabad, India.
The study presents a challenge for news organizations because it reveals that young people have no ritual of news consumption, but that they do want context in their stories at a time when many publications are cutting word counts.
It also found that many young people get their news from e-mail.
