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News deserts in the UK 2023
According to a study conducted in 2023 using the most recently available data, 6.1 percent of local authority districts in the United Kingdom did not have a single local newspaper serving that area, and the same was true of almost four percent of the total UK population. In total, 17.5 of the UK population did not have access to a local newspaper or had only one in their area.