This graph shows the ways online adults in Great Britain regularly accessed the news in 2018. More than half (58 percent) got their news from the television, and 43 percent from the radio. A higher share of respondents accessed national newspapers online (28 percent) than in print form (22 percent). Social media was used by 29 percent of respondents as a regular means of accessing news.
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YouGov, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (UK). (2019). How do you access the news?*. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 03, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1031248/how-people-access-the-news-in-great-britain/
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