Generations before us got their news from newspapers, magazines, television and radio, but the Internet is slowly replacing all of these mediums with the help of RSS feeds, blogs, email, online video, Twitter, and even IM. Today, anyone savvy enough to get online can access the latest breaking news any time no matter where they are.

But disseminating the news is not the problem here—it's overwhelming young readers with news summaries that remains the biggest challenge for large media outlets. A study lead by the Context-Based Research Group found that young adults are experiencing something they're calling news fatigue.

Young adults are leading the shift from traditional media to digital news, according to Jim Kennedy, AP's director of strategic planning. The AP commissioned a study that focused on young men and women between the ages of 18 and 34 and discovered a couple of things: Readers in this group want quality, in-depth stories but have difficulty accessing them, and they have trouble focusing on the news online because they read their email at the same time (not hard to do).

A spokesperson for the AP says the news organization plans to improve their own news gathering methods by adopting what it calls "1-2-3 filing." In the future, AP stories will include a news alert headline for breaking news and a short present-tense story for broadcasters, and articles will be formatted appropriately for various news platforms.

Robbie Blinkoff, co-founder of Context-Based Research Group, says consumers' news diets are out of balance due to over-consumption of facts and headlines. He recommends news producers develop easier ways for readers to discover in-depth content and avoid repetitious updates of breaking news.

Whether all this helps or not remains to be seen. After all, this is the Internet, where distractions are inevitable. Are you a young reader experiencing news fatigue? Tells us why in the comments.