New York - Fifty-seven percent of U.S. teachers use Internet-based news in the classroom, while only 28% use daily newspapers, according to a survey conducted by the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education.

The fall 2006 survey of 1,262 teachers of grades 5-12 also noted that 31% of teachers are using national TV news, and 13% use local TV news.

Top news websites in U.S. classrooms include the BBC Online, The New York Times and CNN.com, the study found.

"Students do not relate to newspapers at all, any more than they would to vinyl records," one teacher was quoted as saying in the study.

While teachers preferred print versions of newspapers, 75% of those surveyed placed them at the bottom of their students' preferred list of news outlets.

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