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YouGov study affirms growing clout of Facebook as a news medium

on Oct 1, 2014 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

Whilst social media platform of the moment Ello has been hogging headlines Facebook has been quietly growing as a news portal in its own right, according to the latest YouGov report on the medium.

Although local newspapers and TV remain the most popular soyrces of local news Facebook has been rapidly closing the gap with a 5 per cent rise in the number of people logging into the platform to find out what’s happening near them.

The YouGov Sixth Sense report into CSR and the local community quizzed 2,000 people on their local news habits, finding that 27 per cent of respondents Read full story ›

Source: The Drum