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Pew-chart-1.jpg (JPEG Image, 615x553 pixels) How Teenagers Consume Media: the report that shook the City. Radio Most teenagers nowadays are not regular listeners to radio.

How Teenagers Consume Media: the report that shook the City

They may occasionally tune in, but they do not try to listen to a program specifically. The main reason teenagers listen to the radio is for music, but now with online sites streaming music for free they do not bother, as services such as last.fm do this advert free, and users can choose the songs they want instead of listening to what the radio presenter/DJ chooses. Television. Twitter is not for teens, Morgan Stanley told by 15-year-old exp. Traditional media, including watching television, is losing ground to new media, according to Matthew Robson's report.

Twitter is not for teens, Morgan Stanley told by 15-year-old exp

Photograph: Howard Kingsnorth/Getty A research note written by a 15-year-old Morgan Stanley intern that described his friends' media habits has generated a flurry of interest from media executives and investors. The US investment bank's European media analysts asked Matthew Robson, an intern from a London school, to write a report on teenagers' likes and dislikes, which made the Financial Times' front page today.

His report, that dismissed Twitter and described online advertising as pointless, proved to be "one of the clearest and most thought-provoking insights we have seen – so we published it", said Edward Hill-Wood, executive director of Morgan Stanley's European media team.