Online News Sources By Type [CHART]

36% of US news consumers (who have consumed any news in the past month) said they had used social media and blogs as a news source in the week prior to a Reuters Institute survey conducted in April and released in July 2012.

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Facebook & Twitter Users' Opinions About The News They Get There [CHART]

via emarketer.com According to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, 39% of Twitter users said most of the news they got on Twitter in January 2012 was not material they would have read elsewhere. On Facebook, the corresponding percentage was a bit lower at 34%. This means that, by eMarketer’s estimates of…

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The Newsroom Trailers

Three trailers for The Newsroom, a new original HBO series from Aaron Sorkin that takes a behind-the-scenes look at cable news.

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How Journalists Worldwide Source Stories [CHART]

Electronic Tattoos

via mediabistro.com In their Digital Journalism Study, Oriella surveyed 600 journalists and discovered that more than half (55 percent) used social channels such as Twitter and Facebook to find stories from known sources, and 43 percent verified existing stories using these tools. 26 percent of respondents said that they used social media to find stories…

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