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More Than 80% of US Adults Get News On Their Phones (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on from the changing-patterns dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: More than 80% of U.S. adults get news on their phones -- up from roughly half of Americans just four years ago, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center. Most of that growth comes from adults older than 65 whose news consumption via mobile spiked almost 25% in the last year, and has tripled over the past four years.

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  1. Mobile not preferred source of news by by+(1706743) · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the study linked in TFA, this number (80%) does not represent primary or preferred, but seems to mean "any news":

    Even though a large number of older adults are getting news on mobile devices, that doesn’t mean they prefer it. Across all adults, a clear majority of those who get news on both mobile devices and desktop/laptop computers prefer to get their news on mobile (65%). But those 65 and older are the only age group in which less than half prefer to do so: Only 44% prefer mobile, compared with about three-quarters of those 18 to 29 (77%), figures that have remained steady for both groups over the past year. In the next-highest age group, those 50 to 64, about half now prefer to get their news on mobile (54%), up from about four-in-ten (41%) a year ago.

    (TFS didn't claim that 80% preferred mobile, but I thought it was mildly ambiguous.)