41% of surveyed Australian teens now get their news from AI: new research

By Tanya Notley, Professor in Digital Media, Western Sydney University
Jee Young Lee, Lecturer, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra
Michael Dezuanni, Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology

The way Australians consume news has been changing for the past 30 years, ever since internet use became widespread.

Long gone are the days when families routinely shared bits of the newspaper over breakfast, or crowded around the 6 o'clock television news at night.

Since 2017, we have been tracking young people’s media engagement, to understand how they get their news.

This time, we found some young people are bypassing traditional outlets, reducing their use of social media sources and getting their news from artificial…

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