Links for February 8th

Young people are 'grazers,' according to a recent Readership Institute study, who don't go looking for news, but will stop to read "if it catches my eye," or if they 'bump into something.' That's a newspaper-friendly characteristic, Smith argues: 'They are placing enormous value on something newspapers hold dear — the value of serendipity, of reading stories we don't know we're interested in until we see them.'

And yet, he adds, it's the portals who are meeting that need — not newspapers."