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Social media main news source for young Indians
Online news generally and social media specifically have outpaced print as the main source of news among English-speaking young Indian news users, showed a new report.
New Delhi: Online news generally and social media specifically have outpaced print as the main source of news among English-speaking young Indian news users, showed a new report.
People over 35 still mix online and offline media to a great extent, according to the Oxford University's Reuters Institute India Digital News Report.
While more than half of respondents in the study reported getting news from social media, a quarter identified social media as their main source of online news.
Facebook and WhatsApp are particularly widely used, with 75 per cent of respondents using Facebook (and 52 per centsaying they get news there), and 82 per cent using WhatsApp (with 52 per cent getting news there).
Other social media widely used for news include Instagram, Twitter and Facebook's Messenger - whereas Snapchat is much less widely used.
