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Ten years have elapsed since Roger Fidler touched for the first time the thin, lightweight device he had been dreaming about since 1980. -
Researchers from the Reynolds Journalism Institute conducted a national survey of 1,000 smartphone users to better understand how they used their devices when consuming news. -
Millennials are more likely than boomers to use smartphones for news, but professional journalism and news sources matter to both. -
Owners of large-screen smartphones (phablets) are much more likely than owners of standard-size smartphones to frequently use multiple approaches to access news organization content on their smartphones. -
Owners of phablets were much more likely to respond to advertisements embedded in news stories and videos than owners of standard smartphones, according to the latest Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute mobile media poll. -
Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of U.S. adults who owned smartphones said they got news and information frequently or very frequently from at least one “old” media source in the week prior to participating in the latest RJI mobile media poll. -
Large-screen smartphone owners between the ages of 25 and 34 are the most frequent news consumers. -
Roger Fidler recently retired as program director for digital publishing at RJI. Jennifer Nelson asked him to reflect on his 1981 prediction of the tablet computer, technological evolutions over the past years, and what he foresees for the future. -
Mobile media users are more likely than nonusers to give higher credibility rankings to national newspapers and most other mainstream news media. They also tend to place greater importance on getting news every day and on the source of news. -
Newspaper subscribers are increasingly using smartphones and tablets while retaining a strong attachment to print, according to the latest mobile media survey from RJI.
Donald W. Reynolds