Millennials, news and the Borneo effect

It's the Year of the Millennials, according to Pew. In 2015, at ages 18 to 34, they will surpass Baby Boomers in the U.S. to become the largest living generation. And a major new report by the Media Insight Project, released at the NAA mediaXchange, sheds a lot of new light on their consumption of news.

The report emphasizes the bright side, stressing the finding that most Millennials do value news and consume it regularly. But the most worrisome finding for newspaper companies is that they rarely go to traditional news providers to get it. We are far back in the loop, when we're in it at all. Read more from Steve Gray's blog.

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