Breaking Down The Millennial Generation: A Typology of Young News Consumers

There are some clear differences from previous generations in how Millennials—the first group of Americans to grow up with digital technology—consume news and information.   The term Millennials, however, which covers a loose generational category of those born between 1980 and 1998, is in some ways too broad. The word—the implication of a monolithic group that doesn’t change with age and different circumstances—masks some important differences inside this generation in the ways they encounter the world and follow news about it.