http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36528256
Social media has overtaken television as young people’s main source of news, according to a report.
Of the 18-to-24-year-olds surveyed, 28% cited social media as their main news source, compared with 24% for TV.
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research also suggests 51% of people with online access use social media as a news source.
This trend and the rising use of mobile phones to access news are undermining traditional business models.
The report, now in its fifth year, is based on a YouGov survey of about 50,000 people across 26 countries, including 2,000 Britons.
In its introduction, the report says “a second wave of disruption” has hit news organisations around the world, with “potentially profound consequences both for publishers and the future of news production”.
