Nearly half of all Americans get their local news on a mobile device, though few are paying to read their local news on the go, according to a new study by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project released Monday. Lee Rainie, director of the center, told Digits the relatively high number of mobile news consumers “was a surprise to me.”
Moreover, 10% said they had paid for mobile apps that contain local news, which equates to 1% of the overall U.S. population. Rainie said that given the relative novelty of tablets in particular and apps in general, 1% “isn’t a trivial number at all.”
According to the study, 84% of Americans own a cellphone or tablet, and fully 47% get their local news on such mobile devices.
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