---
title: "How Young Adults Get News and Information About Their Local Communities"
description: "Kristen Purcell will be discussing Pew Internet's groundbreaking data on local news information ecosystems"
date: "2012-03-30"
authors:
  - name: "Kristen Purcell"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2012/03/30/how-young-adults-get-news-and-information-about-their-local-communities/"
categories:
  - "Digital News Landscape"
  - "Emerging Technology"
  - "Local News"
  - "Teens & Tech"
  - "Teens & Youth"
tags:
  - "Communities"
  - "New Media Ecology"
  - "News"
---

# How Young Adults Get News and Information About Their Local Communities

Kristen will be discussing Pew Internet's groundbreaking data on local news information ecosystems at Ohio State's Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society's 2012 symposium, “The Future of Online Journalism: News, Community and Democracy in the Digital Age.”

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/how-young-adults-get-news-and-information-about-their-local-communities