Fewer Americans are reading newspapers. Instead, they are getting their news online or from television. Television remains the leading source of news in the country.
There is an increasing shift toward online news consumption, and there is now a sizable group of engaged, sophisticated and well-off people that use both traditional and online sources to get news.
In a recent poll, 46 percent of those surveyed have a "heavy reliance" on TV for news at all times of the day. This group is the oldest, with a median age of 52. The group that relies most on the Internet for news is the youngest, at a median age of 35. It is also the smallest, at 13 percent of those polled.