More Americans Getting News From Mobile and Social as Print, TV Decline [STUDY]

The amount of time Americans spend on mobile devices and social networking sites is accelerating rapidly -- and their news consumption habits are shifting accordingly.

In a Pew Research Center survey of 3,003 U.S. adults, 17% said they accessed news on cell phone or tablet device the day before. Even more -- 20% -- said they regularly get news from social networks like Facebook or Google+, nearly the triple the number that did a year ago.

Interestingly, Twitter did not prove a popular news source for most, because its userbase is still comparatively small. Just 13% said they have used Twitter or read Twitter messages, 11% said they have seen news on Twitter and three percent…
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