How Are Children Exposed to the News?

[Commentary] If a well-informed citizenry is vital to any democracy, how do we become informed? A recently completed study by the Pew Center for Research about adult news habits revealed that adult respondents now spend 57 minutes each day absorbing news through traditional media (newspapers and television) and online news consumption is up, now at 70 minutes a day. So how do young children become news-reading adults? Kelly spent last week posing this question to a sampling of elementary school teachers.