Differences in Knowledge Acquisition among Readers of the Paper and Online Versions of a National Newspaper

By David Tewksbury, Scott L. Althaus. 2000

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Learning From the News in Campaign 2000: An Experimental Comparison of TV News, Newspapers, and Online News (2002, background): “A number of recent studies (e.g., Eveland & Dunwoody, 2001, 2002; Sundar, Narayan, Obregon, & Uppal, 1998; Tewksbury & Althaus, 2000; see also DeFleur et al., 1992) have suggested at least a slight superiority of learning from print compared to online sources.”
The Seeds of Audience Fragmentation: Specialization in the Use of Online News Sites (2005, background): “This selectivity influences what audiences learn about current events (Tewksbury & Althaus, 2000) and how they assess the relative importance of issues facing the nation (Althaus & Tewksbury, 2002).”
Stumbling upon news on the Internet: Effects of incidental news exposure and relative entertainment use on political engagement (2013, background): “Therefore, with higher selectivity (i.e., the extent which people select media content on the Internet is greater than for other mass media such as newspapers), Internet users have the ability to choose the content they prefer (Tewksbury & Althaus, 2000).”
Media Sentiment and IPO Underpricing (2017, unknown): “space directly leads to rationing in news coverage making the information reported more visible (Bucher and Schumacher, 2006; Tewksbury and Althaus, 2000).”