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Internet Use Could Kill Off Local Newspapers, Study Finds

WASHINGTON -- News audiences are ditching television and newspapers and using the Internet as their main source of information, in a trend that could eventually see the demise of local papers, according to a new study Wednesday. "As online use has increased, the audiences of older media have declined," Harvard University professor Thomas Patterson said in a report on the year-long study issued by Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Full story...

Posted by Editor at August 17, 2007 06:17 AM