The bar chart illustrates the percentage of people in five different age groups who obtained their daily news from social network, micro-blogging and radio in 2011.
Overall, younger people relied mainly on social network to get daily news,, while elderly people preferred using radio. Micro-blogging was the least popular source of news across all age groups.
In the younger categories, social networks were dominant method of receiving news. Both the 10-17 and 18-29 age groups reported around 80% usage, far higher than any other source, only about 20-25% in these age used micro-blogging. Radio showed a more variety pattern among young people: roughly 40% of teenagers listened to it, whereas this figure rose sharply to around 95% among the 18-29 age groups.
A different proportion is seen among older adults, who relied more heavily on radio while using social platforms far less. Usage of social media dropped to nearly 45% for people aged 30-49 and continued to fall to roughly 32% for those aged 50-64 and 20% for 65+ group. Micro-blogging also declined steadily, reaching only 2% in oldest group. Meanwhile, radio remained most widely used source of news among residents with around 95% for both 30-49 and 50-64 groups.