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OverviewThe overwhelming majority of Americans (92%) use multiple platforms to get their daily news, according to a new survey conducted jointly by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Portable: 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones. Personalized: 28% of internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them. Participatory: 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.

Among those who get news online, 75% get news forwarded through email or posts on social networking sites and 52% share links to news with others via those means.

"People's social worlds are enhanced by new communication technologies.

"People use the technology to stay in touch and share information in ways that keep them socially active and connected to their communities."

Among the six major news threads studied in depth -- which included stories about budgets, crime, a plan involving transit buses, and the sale of a local theater -- fully 83% of stories were essentially repetitive, conveying no new information. Of the 17% that did contain new information, nearly all came from traditional media either in their legacy platforms or in new digital ones.

Our survey of teens also tracked some core internet activities by those ages 12-17 and found:

62% of online teens get news about current events and politics online.