Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

My takeaway is similar. The transition to digital and to mobile-only users continues to advance at a rapid pace. Indeed it has probably gone further by now than the studies in Murray’s analysis suggests. The digital audience is younger and newspapers have it in their power, especially as they improve smartphone news products, to speed the growth of that share.

But remaining print readers, described by some as hardcore and by others as geriatric, are slower than I would have thought, to read a newspaper organization’s report in both print and digital. The Scarborough report Murray highlights finds only about 30 percent of a given paper’s audience uses both print and digital (versus 15 percent digital-only and 55 percent print-only)....