{"id":1453,"date":"2016-06-15T13:19:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2016-06-15T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:19:57","slug":"young-people-are-more-likely-to-get-their-news-from-social-media-than-traditional-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/2016\/06\/15\/young-people-are-more-likely-to-get-their-news-from-social-media-than-traditional-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people are &#8220;more likely to get their news from Social Media than traditional sources."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-36528256\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-36528256<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Social media has overtaken television as young people&#8217;s main source of news, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 18-to-24-year-olds surveyed, 28% cited social media as their main news source, compared with 24% for TV.<\/p>\n<p>The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research also suggests 51% of people with online access use social media as a news source.<\/p>\n<p>This trend and the rising use of mobile phones to access news are undermining traditional business models.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In its introduction, the report says &#8220;a second wave of disruption&#8221; has hit news organisations around the world, with &#8220;potentially profound consequences both for publishers and the future of news production&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-36528256 Social media has overtaken television as young people&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/2016\/06\/15\/young-people-are-more-likely-to-get-their-news-from-social-media-than-traditional-sources\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Young people are &#8220;more likely to get their news from Social Media than traditional sources.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4655,"featured_media":1454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81166,48866,1456],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-broadcasting","category-senior-class","category-social-media","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/cumnockmedia\/uploads\/sites\/2052\/2016\/06\/BBC-graphic.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}