The line graph demonstrates the popularity of four news sources: website, TV, print, and social media among the Americans from 2012 to 2015.
Overall, website and TV witnessed mild changes while print and social media fluctuated wildly.
Website remained the most chosen news resource throughout the given period. In 2012, about 78% of people used website to access news and the figure rose slightly to approximately 82%. Meanwhile, there was about 75% of people using TV in 2012 as their news resource, however, from 2013, the number dropped to around 71% in 2015.
The number of people who accessed news through print and social media stayed below 60% throughout the timespan. Print underwent a steep increase and reached its peak in 2013 (with 50% of people). However, it began to plunge dramatically throughout the next two years and remained about 25% of people. Social media on the other hand was chosen the least with only 20% of people in 2012, but it continued to surge to 40% in 2015.