An excellent survey of “citizen journalism” and the switch of news consumption to being a) continuous b) online by Stephen Quinn of Deakin University, Australia, writing in Ohmynews. The key stats:

• Internet advertising in the United States jumped 38 percent to a record $3.9 billion in the first quarter of this year as more marketers moved to the Web (IaB, PwC);
  
• UK Internet advertising will surpass newspaper advertising in 2006, at 13.3% of total $23bn. (Guardian);
  
• 39 percent of men aged 18-34 surveyed got their news from the Internet compared with 5 percent who read newspapers (Carnegie Foundation)

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