Tablet users prefer reading news in the evening

Tablet owners spend more time consuming news at home after work than people who don't own the devices, according to a new study from the Reynolds Journalism Institute.

Source NetNewsCheck on July 10, 2012 0 Comments
Roger Fidler, ipad, tablet, RJI, Reynolds Journalism Institute
"Tablet users prefer reading news in the evening," NetNewsCheck, July 10, 2012.

The tablet computer may bring about the rebirth of the evening edition for newspapers, according to the third installment of the Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Media News Consumption Survey. The study confirmed that owners of tablets tend to spend more time consuming news than those who don’t own them and they do so while relaxing at home after work.

“While more than half of tablet users still subscribe to a printed news media, it’s interesting to find that tablet owners tend to use their devices more frequently at home after 5 p.m.,” Roger Fidler, program director of digital publishing at RJI, said in a statement. “Evenings have historically been the location and time for reading evening newspapers and watching news.”

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