Research suggests online readers of news forget what they've read more easily

People are more likely to forget the news if they read it online rather than in a newspaper, new research has found.

Research suggests online readers of news forget what they've read more easily

People are more likely to forget the news if they read it online rather than in a newspaper, new research has found.

Academics from the University of Houston found that students who read their news from a hard copy of the New York Times had better recall than those who read the e-paper.

They concluded that online news changes quickly and can disappear suddenly, leaving readers with the impression that it is not worth remembering.

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