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Hard Numbers

Digital disruption
January 2, 2014

79 years (1933-2012) that Newsweek was continuously in print in the US

279 years that Lloyd’s List, the world’s oldest newspaper still operating, lasted in print before moving solely online in 2013

34 percent of millennials watch mostly online video or no broadcast television

13 percent of Americans got most of their news about national and international issues from the internet in 2001

41 percent of Americans got most of their news about national and international issues from the internet in 2010

41 percent of Americans had read a newspaper in the past 24 hours in 2002

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23 percent of Americans had read a newspaper in the past 24 hours in 2012

Edirin Oputu is a former assistant editor at CJR. Follow her on Twitter @EdirinOputu