PEW State of the Media
by Phoebe Dinner
The PEW State of the Media 2015 report addresses the future
of digital journalism. As people quickly are switching from print sources to
online, the future is uncertain.
Senior Bailey Hayek was surprised to learn that people are
primarily using their desktops to access news online instead of their phones.
However, a statistic from the PEW report states that 39 out of 50 news sites
get more traffic from mobile devices than from desktop computers.
To contrast this statistic, the PEW report states that
people visiting sites on their mobile phones will stay on the site for a
shorter amount of time than they would on their desktop.
The amount of time people spend on their mobile phones is
certainly growing. Simultaneously there is a rise of the social Web where people
get news from scrolling through their news feed and looking at what their
“friends” deem as important news that is share worthy.
The newspaper industry has suffered economically from
society’s increased use of mobile journalism. Newspaper ad revenue went down
another 4% to $19.9 billion, which is less than half of what it was a decade
ago, according to the PEW report.
Even though there is a decrease in print news, people are
still searching for news on their mobile devices.
“People are constantly on their phones checking for the
latest news updates,” Hayek said. “And without mobile journalism the news
outlets would be falling behind.”
The top online news entity is Yahoo-ABC News, which has a
total digital population of roughly 130 million. It is becoming more complicated to identify
and rank the most popular digital news destinations because there is so many
more coming to the surface.
Mobile journalism has permitted more people to become mobile
journalists and deem what news is important and what news is worth sharing to
their community.
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