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Visualizing Our News Sources

While browsing Flowingdata.com the other evening, I came across a presently expired visualization challenge on the changing sources of present-day news. It talks of the Internet gaining on Television as the public’s main news source as more young people cite the Internet than TV. You can read about the challenge and the article here. 

Among many who replied was Ole Østring, who submitted this unique chart/table in response. Here is my reproduction of it in Excel.


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