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 intelligence (AI) summaries using platforms such as Google search and tools like ChatGPT.
Are young people interested in the news?
