Behind the Bylines: Meeting them where they don’t want to be

Behind the Bylines: Meeting them where they don’t want to be

In the final week of my journalism class, I asked my students a simple question: If given what they now know about how social media platforms are designed, should news live there? Almost all of them said no. When I asked where they actually get their news, almost all of them said social media. A recent Pew report on young adults and the future of news. U.S. adults under 30 are the least likely to intentionally follow the news and the most likely…