This statistic shows how users come across online news in the United Kingdom in 2015, by age group. News websites were the most popular source for all age groups, while respondents aged 18 to 24 were more likely to come across news through social media than other groups.
Thinking about how you find news online, which are the main ways that you come across news stories?*
Characteristic
18-24
25-34
65+
Directly accessed one or more news websites apps
53%
52%
48%
Search
38%
34%
29%
Used a search engine and typed in a keyword for the name of a particular website
25%
26%
19%
Used a search engine and typed in a keyword about a particular news story
25%
17%
17%
Used social media and came across news that way
45%
37%
16%
Got news via an email newsletter or email alert
10%
7%
16%
Received a news alert through an app on my mobile phone/tablet or via SMS
12%
9%
9%
Used a website or mobile app that pulls together different news links
* The original survey question was: "Thinking about how you got news online (via computer, mobile or any device) in the last week, which were the ways in which you came across news stories? Please select all that apply."
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (June 16, 2015). Thinking about how you find news online, which are the main ways that you come across news stories?* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 18, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/298227/how-users-come-across-online-news-by-age-uk/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. "Thinking about how you find news online, which are the main ways that you come across news stories?*." Chart. June 16, 2015. Statista. Accessed December 18, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/298227/how-users-come-across-online-news-by-age-uk/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (2015). Thinking about how you find news online, which are the main ways that you come across news stories?*. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 18, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/298227/how-users-come-across-online-news-by-age-uk/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. "Thinking about How You Find News Online, Which Are The Main Ways That You Come across News Stories?*." Statista, Statista Inc., 16 Jun 2015, https://www.statista.com/statistics/298227/how-users-come-across-online-news-by-age-uk/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Thinking about how you find news online, which are the main ways that you come across news stories?* Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/298227/how-users-come-across-online-news-by-age-uk/ (last visited December 18, 2024)
Thinking about how you find news online, which are the main ways that you come across news stories?* [Graph], Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, June 16, 2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/298227/how-users-come-across-online-news-by-age-uk/
