This afternoon I was checking Twitter when I should have been working on a presentation and saw a retweet of something from @StandfordBiz:
On average, you spend 25 minutes reading a physical newspaper. On your laptop or phone, you spend 70 seconds a day reading the news. #FOMC14
— Stanford Business (@StanfordBiz) March 5, 2014
Wow. That’s an astounding statistic about what you do in 2014! It really suggests something about your newsreading habits doesn’t it? Despite all the sites out there publishing great stories, you still seem to spend more time with print. A statistic shared with the Stanford Future of Media Conference and @StanfordBiz’s Twitter account’s 168K followers (receiving 41 retweets!) could be quite influential if it’s true. A flurry of trend pieces is sure to follow!
Except everything I’ve read in the past few years suggests people are reading more news online, particularly on tablet and mobile (phone) products. Even when compared with print products.