Friends who Choose Your News

Brian Baresch ,University of Texas at Austin | @editer Lewis Knight, UT Austin

Dustin Harp, Ph.D., UT AustinCarolyn Yaschur, UT Austin

“If the news is that important, it will find me”

In Pew’s recent State of the Media report, 41% of Americans cited the Internet as the place where they got “most of their news about national and international issues”; this cohort is 17% larger than a year earlier.

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Facebook has become the leadingreferrer for visits to news and media sites, ahead of the aggregator Google Reader, and is fourth overall behind Google search, Yahoo and MSN.

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Thank youBrian Baresch, UT AustinLewis Knight, UT Austin

Dustin Harp, Ph.D., UT AustinCarolyn Yaschur, UT Austin