Many people believe that America’s first digital generation is “newsless.” Conventional wisdom dictates that one of the many reasons for print newspapers decline is due to low readership rates among Millennials, and that very few of them read the news at all. To complicate the picture further, it’s widely viewed that when Millennials do choose to consume traditional news media, they tend only read sources that confirm their own beliefs. The American Press Institute, collaborating with the Associated Press and AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago, conducted a large survey to test whether these theories about news consumption were accurate. CONT.
Joshua Bleiberg & Darrell M. West, Brookings Institution