As journalists and media practitioners gather for the annual Online News Association conference, here are 10 key findings from recent Pew Research Center reports about today’s digital news media landscape:

  1. The gap between television and online news consumption is narrowing.
  2. Use of mobile devices for news continues to grow.
  3. Older adults are driving the growth in mobile news use.
  4. Two-thirds of Americans (67%) get at least some news on social media.
  5. Nonwhites and the less educated increasingly say they get news on social media.
  6. Many Americans believe fabricated news is sowing confusion, and about a third (32%) say they often see made-up political news online.
  7. Americans have low trust in information from social media.
  8. Social media and direct visits to news organizations’ websites are the most common pathways to online news.
  9. Online news that comes via emails and texts from friends or family is the type of news encounter most likely to result in a follow-up action.
  10. An analysis of nearly 2,700 different search terms associated with the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, shows that online searches can be a good proxy for the public’s interests, concerns or intentions.

Read the full article on news media consumption by Kristen Bialik and Katerina Eva Matsa at Pew Research Center