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Articles tagged news consumption (25)

“[T]he question is not whether the problem is real, but how research might quantify and describe its true prevalence, and how to address the problem.”
A healthy chunk of Facebook users say they don’t get much news there any more — an outcome to be both expected and desired.
Slow news has been pitched as a way to break through the noise and reach audiences exhausted by the daily headlines. But it’s still fast-news junkies who are most attracted to it, this new research finds.
The kids, it turns out, are alright.
Forty-two percent of Democrats say the news they get on social media has helped their understanding of current events, compared to 24 percent of Republicans who say the same thing.
Plus: Debating Twitter’s publicness and the ethics of quoting tweets, robot journalists, and the rest of the week’s news about journalism and the web.