Study: Social Media Isn't Replacing Traditional News Outlets At All | Fast Company | Business + Innovation: The way we consume news is a hot topic in the media industry. Startups like Circa are banking on the fact that people frequently prefer their news updates delivered in snack-sized bites. Others, like Ezra Klein's yet-to-launch Vox, are betting big on readers who might want to wade deep into tricky, complicated subject matter, like the history of the crisis in Ukraine.
A new survey, however, unearthed some interesting data regarding our news consumption: Readers don't seem to really care about what organization they're getting their news from, or what device format they're reading on; what matters, really, is the news itself.