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Social Media Sites Increasingly Popular for Breaking News

People are increasingly turning to social media channels in search of breaking news.

Kylie Jane Wakefield
<a href="http://kjwakefield.contently.com/">Kylie Jane Wakefield</a> is a Los Angeles based freelance writer and publicist. · April 24, 2012

People are increasingly turning to social media channels in search of breaking news. While the population more frequently checks newspapers and the television for breaking stories, a large and growing segment are now using social media instead.

About 28% of the population uses social media to find breaking news, while nearly 29% read newspapers and 59.5% watch TV, according to an infographic from Schools.com.

Where do you look to for breaking news? Are social media sites near the top of your list?

 

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Kylie Jane Wakefield

<a href="http://kjwakefield.contently.com/">Kylie Jane Wakefield</a> is a Los Angeles based freelance writer and publicist.