• BBC, Monday, March 1, 2010 1:24 PM

In what might not come as a surprise to anyone reading this digital news brief, consumers now prefer "grazing" the Web for news over more thorough newspaper reading. That according to the Pew Research Center, which also found -- perhaps surprisingly -- that the Web remains the third most popular news channel, behind local and national TV stations: 61% of readers surveyed said they got their news online on a typical day, compared with 78% from local news channels and 71% from a national TV network such as NBC or cable channels such as CNN or Fox News.

Meanwhile, regular readers of newspapers -- either local ones or national papers such as the New York Times -- have dropped to 50%, the survey said. Online, the survey also showed that news aggregators such as Google News and AOL were most commonly used, along with the websites of CNN and the BBC.

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