The Poynter Institute, a landmark of American journalism research, announced that as of the end of 2010, more people get their news from the Internet than from newspapers -- and more ad dollars went to online outlets than to newspapers, too.

    In surveys, 34 percent of respondents said they read news online within the past 24 hours (as opposed to 31 percent who favored newspapers); and a full 41 percent said they get most of their news online, 10 percent more than those who said they got most of their news from a newspaper.

    And of course, the 18-to-29-year-old group overwhelmingly* cast their vote* with the Web; 65 percent said the Internet was their main news source.

    Poynter’s annual State of the Media report showed that the Web was the second most popular source of news; local television news is still the number one source for the majority of people. Local TV also led in revenues*, with digital media coming in second.(SD-Agencies)