Most important news platforms in the United Kingdom (UK) 2024

Published by
Amy Watson,
Sep 16, 2024

In 2024, a survey conducted in the United Kingdom asking about the most important news platform to news consumers showed that during the period under consideration 71 percent of respondents chose television. By contrast, under 61 percent of news consumers who used social media for news at least weekly considered social networks to be important to them personally as a news source.

Most important news platforms to news consumers in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 2024

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Release date

September 2024

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

November 2023 to March 2024

Number of respondents

*

Age group

16 years and older

Special properties

among regular users who rated source highly (7-10) and who used the news source at least weekly, or for weekly newspapers every two to three weeks

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

*The source provided the survey sample size as follows: TV n= 8,130, newspapers n= 3,036, radio n= 2,411, social media n= 5,375

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