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New research finds 92 percent of time spent on news consumption is still on legacy platforms

Here is a surprising statistic from leading consultants McKinsey and Company: When you measure news consumption in the U.S. by time spent, rather than raw audience numbers, digital platforms are getting only 8 percent of the action.

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Smartphones captured 2 iconic shots of new World Trade Center

NBC News's Anthony Quintano "was on the roof of One World Trade where all the iron workers were watching the spire rise," he tells Poynter in an email. (Workers at One World Trade attached the building's spire Friday morning.) Quintano used his iPhone 5 to take the following Instagram picture of a worker taking in the view.
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Study: Americans spend more than a quarter of their time online on social media

Experian
An Experian Hitwise survey of time spent online says Americans spend 27 percent of their time online using social media. By contrast, they spent 4 percent of their time on news and "adult" content.



But note: The survey "doesn’t include mobile visits made on 3G or 4G networks or app visits," Experian's James Murray writes (though another study published last year found similar results). Social use declined slightly from Experian's 2011 survey, and news use went up a little bit. Time spent on email -- hallelujah -- declined. Last fall, Pew found that one-third of adults under 30 now get their news on social networks.

The study doesn't include data on mobile, where people are increasingly getting their news. BuzzFeed Chairman Kenneth Lerer said Wednesday that mobile devices account for 65 percent of BuzzFeed's traffic.

Related: What the world population is doing on smartphones and social networks | Even on smartphones, your news is more likely to be found through social media
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Online ad revenues up, sponsored content revenues down in 2012

IAB | The Wall Street Journal
Revenues from digital advertising reached nearly $37 billion in 2012, the Interactive Advertising Bureau's annual report says, up 15 percent over 2011. Mobile advertising accounted for 9 percent of the total. Display advertising accounted for 33 percent, and search was 46 percent. Video advertising was up 29 percent over 2011.

As good as that news may seem, there's no guarantee that this wave of cash will wash ashore at news organizations. IAB spokesperson Laura Goldberg tells Poynter the report does not break down revenue by web property category. But analyst Mary Meeker pointed out last year that there is a "steep imbalance between where people spend their time and where advertisers spend their money," as Jeff Sonderman put it.

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What journalists need to know about the difference between Web apps and native apps

Facebook’s recent unveiling of Home, a software suite for Android phones (and soon tablets), offered more evidence that apps rule the mobile world.

Just a few years ago, usage of apps lagged Web browsing within that world. But … Read more

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How Flipboard just created 50 million magazine editors

Inside FlipboardAll Things D | Giga Om
If you wanted to draw up a plan for drastically remaking the landscape of mobile news discovery, it might look something like this: 1) Release a beautiful news aggregating app that attracts 50 million readers, then 2) Empower those readers as curators who can create thousands of hand-picked digital magazines.

Flipboard, one of the most popular news-reading mobile apps, has just done that. It is shifting its focus toward empowering users to create their own curated "magazines" for others to read.

"Now everyone can be a reader and an editor," a company blog post says. (more...)
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How journalists can use location-based apps as a reporting tool

After hearing a shopping mall was supposedly being evacuated because of a “bomb device,” Andy Stettler turned to his phone.

Using Banjo, a location-based application, Stettler checked the app’s map for geo-tagged social media posts coming out of the … Read more

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Pew: 25 percent of teens access Internet mainly through a phone

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Publishers who hope to avoid what Tom Rosenstiel called "digital hesitation 2.0" in a Poynter.org piece Wednesday might want to look at some findings from Pew released the same day.

Pew found that 37 percent of teenagers have smart phones, compared to 23 percent in 2011. Half of those kids "use the Internet mostly via their cell phone." Teen girls, the report says, are significantly more likely than boys to say they access the Internet mostly using their cell phone."

The report also highlighted an important finding for news organizations that want to reach younger people who may not have access to computers:

In overall Internet use, youth ages 12-17 who are living in lower-income and lower-education households are still somewhat less likely to use the internet in any capacity — mobile or wired. However, those who fall into lower socioeconomic groups are just as likely and in some cases more likely than those living in higher income and more highly educated households to use their cell phone as a primary point of access.
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New studies offer 5 ways publishers can capitalize on mobile trends now

As Cory Bergman explored in a thoughtful piece here last month, mobile connectivity– people linked to the Web via smart phones and tablets — is poised to thoroughly disrupt news all over again.

News publishers must deeply understand the contours … Read more

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Google Glass is here: How to build news apps that get in users’ faces

Google Glass, a pair of wearable computer-enhanced eyeglasses, is possibly the next-big-thing in mobile computing.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin wears Google Glass glasses at an event in San Francisco in February. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
About 8,000 developers have prototypes, and the public is expected to be able to buy them soon. Early reviews are a mix of awesome and awkward -- life-changing technology held back only by concerns about privacy and aesthetics.

We've been expecting this evolution since at least 2011, when Poynter friends and former fellows Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan created a futuristic video called "The Storm Collection" depicting a future where "photo frames, windshields and eyeglasses become heads-up-displays for information. Call them NUDs: news-up-displays."

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