to the television news audience, the online news audience skews younger (see
Figure 7.3). Two-thirds (67 percent) of respondents between eighteen and
twenty-four now say online is their main source of news, compared to just
a quarter (24 percent) who name television. Social media alone – just one of
the ways of getting news online – is more important for news for the youngest
age group than television. With generational replacement, the shift toward the
kind of digital-, mobile-, and platforms-ﬁrst environment that most people
below the age of thirty-ﬁve already live in (especially in high-income, highly
connected societies) will only continue.
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