Seamus McCauley: "For news consumers, news fulfils a number of discrete functions that traditionally happen to be packaged up as a newspaper or broadcast. … "

Rex Hammock: "I challenge anyone to provide a link to research showing that … youth today do not rely on TV or magazines for any of their information."

For all age cohorts, readership trends in the United States have changed very little for the past 20 years. "The point is that media consumption patterns are set early in life, and tend to persist."

The Economist’s innovation team, Project Red Stripe, has narrowed its list of potential projects to a very interesting shortlist.