New research suggests that the amount of time Britons spend looking at news online has tripled over the last three years to around 22 million hours a month.
This makes looking for news the second fastest growing way to spend time online, after blogs and social networking.
Traditional newspapers are feeling the pressure to adjust to the new medium, especially with the rise of ebook readers such as the iPad and Kindle. Today's Internet-savvy adults want their news right now, not tomorrow morning. With increased emphasis on the immediacy of news comes increased pressure for newspaper editors to spot errors in articles before they come out on their Web sites. In the current Web world, editors who work accurately and quickly will always have work.
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