The Pew report notes that the number of Americans who regularly go online for news has remained almost exactly the same since it did a similar study in 2010: about 46 percent said that they get news online at least three days a week. But the number of people who said they regularly get news on a cellphone, tablet or other mobile device has ballooned from 9 percent to 15 percent– and the number who said that they regularly see news on social networks has gone from 7 percent to 20 percent.Pew notes that these two trends also go together, in the sense that users who have smartphones (about 48 percent of those surveyed) were far more likely to see news on social networking sites. And those who have iPads, Kindles and other tablets — who made up about 21 percent of those surveyed — are also much more likely to get their news from social networks.
