internet as their main source of news. The only cohort that cites newspapers more frequently than the internet as their main source are people age 65 and older.

With 15% of young people saying they are getting most of their news about Haiti from Yahoo.com, that single website rivals newspapers as a general category (17%) within this age group. For the most part, the same websites are widely used across age groups, with Yahoo, CNN, MSNBC, Fox and Google consistently topping the list. While 24% of 18-29 year olds say they have gotten or shared information about the earthquake on social networking websites, just 2% list Facebook or Twitter as places where they have gotten most of their news about events in Haiti.

Press Gets High Marks for Haiti Earthquakeolder, from January 14-17, 2010, (672 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 331 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 123 who had no landline telephone. Both the landline and cell phone samples were provided by Survey Sampling International. Interviews were conducted in English.

The combined landline and cell phone sample are weighted using an iterative technique that matches gender, age, education, race/ethnicity, region, and population density to parameters from the March 2009 Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. The sample is also weighted to match current patterns of telephone status and relative usage of landline and cell phones (for those with both), based on extrapolations from the January-June 2009 National Health Interview Survey. The weighting procedure also accounts for the fact that respondents with both landline and