The journalists of the future are rapidly moving away from traditional news services, saying they are impractical compared to new media.
A survey of Australian journalism students found 90 per cent of students do not like reading the newspaper, preferring to source news from commercial television or online media.
Professor in Journalism and Media Studies at the Queensland University of Technology, Alan Knight, conducted the survey and says despite an aversion to newspapers, 95 per cent of students are very interested in following the news.
"At this stage commercial television is still the favoured source, but online is rising pretty rapidly," he said.
Professor Knight says it appears some of the smaller faults with the newspaper medium are deterring students from reading them.
"They said that newspapers are impractical, they fall apart, you have to buy them," he said.
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