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News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media

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According to Nieman Lab, news publishers are watching history repeat itself. Audiences worldwide—especially those under 35—are abandoning dedicated news sites and apps in favor of social media feeds and video platforms. The very model that disrupted traditional newspapers is now being disrupted in turn: where readers once sought out news deliberately, many now encounter it passively in algorithmic feeds.

Source: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/news-sites-are-the-new-...

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