Gen Z abandons old media, choose Instagram, YouTube, Facebook

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Gen Z, the newest generation of teens graduating into adulthood, isn’t just snubbing print, but have abandoned old media altogether, choosing to get their news from Instagram, YouTube and Facebook, according to a global study of those 18-32.

The shift isn’t just driven by handheld technology, like it was for their millennial brothers and sisters, but also by a nearly universal distrust of the media.

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