Now I usually listen to a local newscast on my 20 minute commute in each morning, try to catch the last 30 minutes of Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News after dinner and that’s about it. I check the standings for the American League East to make sure the Red Sox are still in first place about once a week.

The other place I pick up news tidbits is in my twitter feed.

I scan my tweets looking for things with interesting links. I key on industry related topics (web development and photography), weird news, and Carolina Hurricanes news, but occasionally other breaking news or other sports news will catch me.

I keep track of the weather with various widgets and my eyes and if needed, I’ll pop to WRAL for radar and watch/warning information.

I have a newsreader setup with various news sources: CNN, N&O, WRAL, Miami Herald and Lexington Herald Leader. I pretty much just scan those headlines and rarely will click on something. CNN gets more clicks than the rest, though Miami comes up with weird stories. But usually someone else has already tweeted it. I don’t subscribe to any news paper feed in twitter, btw.

I have several hockey and sports news RSS feeds, but they also get a causal scan. The geek feeds (Slashdot, Ars Technia, Wired, Macworld, etc.) get more attention.

My wife likes to watch CNN when we get home, so a dose of Wolf Blitzer and the bozo who comes on after him (glad Lou Dobbs is on vacation, his stand in has much less hate). She will flip over to NBC-17 to catch the late news cast though I think we would prefer to watch WRAL, but its timing. She also likes NBC Nightly news which is probably why we end up on NBC-17′s 7:00er.

Occasionally at lunch, I’ll read the print N&O picking up on a couple of local stories, usually sports, but I scan all the section fronts before picking which two stories to read.

Now I’m older than the target your looking for, but I’m not your traditional person either.