10 facts about the changing digital news landscape

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/09/14/facts-about-the-changing-digital-news-landscape/

About four-in-ten Americans now often get news online.

Mobile is becoming a preferred device for digital news

Long-form journalism has a place in today’s mobile-centric society.

 More than half (55%) of U.S. smartphone users get news alerts, but few get them frequently.

Social media, particularly Facebook, is now a common news source.

• Overall, 62% of U.S. adults get news on social media, and
• 18% do so often
• However, news plays a varying role across the social networking sites studied.
• Two-thirds of Facebook users (66%) get news on the site, which amounts to
• 44% of the general population.
• Nearly as many Twitter users say they get news on Twitter (59%), but
• due to Twitter’s smaller user base this translates to just 9% of the general population.

Passing thoughts

The AP tweet

News is mobile, news is breaking, news is interdependent

Gawker case - democratisation of the media? Find some blogs,

They had a dream. The internet would democratise information. Mews would no longer be under the control of big media, big government, invested ...

They would be pure and clear and honest. Unlike the Mainstream Media

Think alt-right and their proclaimations about msm

The failure of the BBC and ITN covering Brexit debate

Get quote today from the electoral reform people

The technology was in the hands of few.  Media was in the hands of the Few, but our few was better than their few. Our hands were clean, theirs were dirty. Spoilt by wealth, and political influence.

Then came the Flame Wars. To the surprise, not everyone was as nice" as the 

These nasty people even had a name Trolls ... ((That guy thrown off twitter)

Trolls rejoiced in their name

Then the Facebook algorithm. If you liked or read a story, that's what you like, so here's more. No ability to explore ... Surfing the web.