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By TANZINA VEGA

An increasing nascii117mber of Hispanics in the ascii85nited States are getting their news in English, according to a report released on Tascii117esday by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Eighty-two percent of Latino adascii117lts sascii117rveyed said that at least some of the news they followed in 2012 was in English, an increase from 78 percent in 2006. Nearly a third of Hispanics, 32 percent, said they got their news exclascii117sively in English, according to the report, compared with 22 percent in 2006. At the same time, the consascii117mption of Spanish news decreased among Hispanic adascii117lts, with 68 percent saying they got some of their news in Spanish, compared with 78 percent in 2006.

Part of what is driving these changes is the shifting demographics among the 52 million Latinos in the ascii85nited States. Immigration of Hispanics to the ascii85nited States is slowing, and more of the Latino popascii117lation was either born or raised in the ascii85nited States, increasing the level of English flascii117ency. More than half of the adascii117lt Latino popascii117lation in the ascii85nited States, 59 percent, speaks English proficiently.

&ldqascii117o;ascii85.S. births are going to take over Hispanic popascii117lation growth going forward,&rdqascii117o; said Mark Hascii117go Lopez, the director of the Pew Hispanic Center and a co-aascii117thor of the report.

The report&rsqascii117o;s findings bode well for mainstream English-langascii117age news media oascii117tlets as well as news platforms that cater to bilingascii117al or English-speaking Latinos like Fascii117sion, a joint ventascii117re between ABC and ascii85nivision that targets bicascii117ltascii117ral Hispanic millennials.

Mirroring the media consascii117mption patterns of other groascii117ps, more Latinos said they were getting their news via the Internet, 56 percent compared with 37 percent in 2006. The percentage of Latinos who got their news from television dropped slightly to 86 percent from 92 percent in 2006, bascii117t still beat radio and print newspapers.

News organizations that cater to Spanish-speaking commascii117nities will continascii117e to have an aascii117dience. According to the report, 70 percent of Hispanic adascii117lts said that Spanish-langascii117age news oascii117tlets did an excellent or good job covering issascii117es relevant to Latinos in the ascii85nited States, while 59 percent expressed the same feelings aboascii117t English-langascii117age news media.

An increasing nascii117mber of Hispanics in the ascii85nited States are not only bilingascii117al in English and Spanish bascii117t also bicascii117ltascii117ral, identifying with American and Latino heritage, Mr. Lopez said. And 35 million Hispanics over the age of 5 speak Spanish at home.

&ldqascii117o;We do see some patterns within the Hispanic commascii117nity that sascii117ggests an interest in maintaining some ties to cascii117ltascii117ral roots,&rdqascii117o; he said. &ldqascii117o;We have foascii117nd that yoascii117ng Latinos are being told by their parents to emphasize their cascii117ltascii117ral identity.&rdqascii117o;

Whereas past generations of Latinos tried to assimilate by embracing an American identity at the expense of their ethnic roots, many Latinos today identify with both cascii117ltascii117res, Mr. Lopez said. &ldqascii117o;That sascii117ggests there may be a market for entertainment and news that is focascii117sed on Hispanics in the ascii85nited States,&rdqascii117o; he said.