Mobile Users Prefer Mainstream News Sites
Despite the proliferation of social media sharing, mobile users still prefer to get their news from mainstream news sites rather than their friends, according to a new study from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.
RJI’s Media News Consumption Survey also found that mobile users favored news stories produced by professional journalists. “Our analysis suggests that digital content produced by professional journalists has a perceived value to the mobile consumer,” Roger Fidler, RJI’s program director for digital publishing, said in a statement. “But we found that trust may be the single most important factor to this value as well as the most conflicted.” Researchers also found that respondents news channel choice also effected how likely they were to trust the mainstream news media, with those who favored Fox News Channel and MSNBC were less likely to trust the news media. Users who favored network news, such as ABC, CBS and NBC, tended to have higher trust of the news media.
Mobile Users Prefer Mainstream News Sites