Some key points:

1. According to a Pew 2005 survey, on a typical day, 50 million Americans turn to the Internet for news.
2. Pew also revealed that the early adopters, the ‘high-powered users,’ who Pew defines as users who performed more than four different tasks online in a given day, are particularly voracious consumers of online news: 71% of high-powered users get news online in a particular day.
3. Approximately 25% of the growth of daily online news consumption since 2002 can be attributed to increased diffusion of broadband adoption.
4. While 46% of Internet users go to the Web site of a national TV news organization like CNN or MSNBC, 39% go to Web sites like Yahoo! or Google to get their news.