研究報告：媒體預算緊縮改變美國人獲取信息方式

A new study says budget woes that have forced newsrooms across the United States to lay off reporters and spend less on their coverage are sending viewers and readers to emerging online forms of learning about the day's news.

The non-partisan Pew Research Center issued its yearly report on the U.S. news industry Monday, saying nearly a third of people it surveyed stopped going to a particular news source because it no longer offered the information it once did.

The report cites the tangible effects of the cutbacks, with fewer reporters to look deeply into stories, and television news programs showing fewer stories that are shorter in length. It says cable channels, such as CNN, are airing more interviews and less of the day-to-day live news that once played a much larger role in their coverage.

On the local level, young people are fleeing television news broadcasts, with viewership among those under age 30 dropping from 42 percent in 2006 to 28 percent last year.一項新研究結果顯示，美國各地媒體的編輯部由於預算緊縮，不得不解僱記者，削減報道開支，致使越來越多的觀衆和讀者轉而上網獲取每天的信息。

沒有黨派色彩的皮尤研究中心星期一發表了有關美國新聞業界狀況的年度報告。報告說，由於傳統媒體不像過去那樣提供信息，將近三分之一的受訪者不再依靠這類信息來源。

這份報告指出削減開支的明顯後果，包括做深入報道的記者人數減少，電視新聞的時間縮短。報告說，美國有線電視新聞網等有線電視頻道現在播放更多的採訪報道，每天的現場報道減少，而以往這類報道所佔的地位重要得多。

此外，年輕人開始遠離電視新聞，在30歲以下的人羣中，電視新聞觀衆從2006年的42%減少到去年的28%。