Internet: the third source of news

NEWS Sixteen to 34 year olds, the group advertisers prize the most, spend 15 times longer on the internet in an average week than they do reading a newspaper. This finding comes in a survey that indicates that the internet is now established as the third source of news behind television and radio. Newspapers and magazines move down to fourth and fifth place respectively. Commissioned by Freeserve, the survey found that overall people spend three times longer surfing the net than they do reading newspapers. Although the difference is most stark in the younger age categories, the internet wins out in every demographic group.