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dipsydoodle

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Thu Jun 20, 2013, 05:18 AM Jun 2013

Young people more willing to pay for digital news, report finds

Young people are more willing to pay for online news than any other age group, according to a major study of internet habits.

The survey of 11,000 internet users in nine countries including the UK found that 25- to 34-year-olds are twice as likely to part with their cash for digital news than older readers.

According to the study, 20% of 25- to 34-year-olds said they had paid for online news compared with less than 10% of those aged over 55.

The research, contained in the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism's Digital News Report 2013, provides headline news to cheer about for the embattled newspaper industry.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun/20/young-people-digital-news

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grilled onions

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1. More Disposable Income
Thu Jun 20, 2013, 07:28 AM
Jun 2013

While many seniors would like to head into the new age with fancy Smart Phones, subscriptions to multiple news sources they find it difficult to add yet another bill to their laundry list of items that gnaw through their retirement or social security. Most came through a time when many did not pay for phone service,even. The local pay phone at the corner was all they needed. Radio was free. TV was free. They manged quite well. Now today when their offspring do not even hesitate to buy bottled water(when our generation took a thermos of water when we traveled) it seems logical that they do not want to go that extra step for the "new" news.
I would like to but again big pharma gets all my spare change. I have to ration the times I can visit on line news since many limit how many front page news stories you can read in a month.

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