News consumption in the UK

Media use and attitudes Attitudes to news Research, statistics and data
Published: 20 July 2023
Last updated: 10 September 2024

This series of reports looks at UK adults' consumption across television, radio, print, social media and other websites or apps.

We look at the UK news market as a whole, but also publish individual reports for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

2024

Document Date published
News Consumption in the UK 2024 10 September 2024

Pobl yn cael gafael ar newyddion yn y Deyrnas Unedig: 2024

 10 September 2024
News Consumption in the UK 2024 – Supporting Data 10 September 2024
News Consumption in the UK 2024 – Northern Ireland 10 September 2024
News Consumption in the UK 2024 – Scotland 10 September 2024
News Consumption in the UK 2024 – Wales 10 September 2024
Arolwg ar Gael Gafael ar Newyddion 2024    10 September 2024

News Consumption Survey

Our research into news consumption across television, radio, print and online.

Document Date published
Adults News Consumption Survey - Technical Report (PDF) 22 May 2024
Adults News Consumption Survey - online questionnaire (PDF) 22 May 2024
Adults News Consumption Survey data tables (XLSX) 22 May 2024
Adults News Consumption Survey respondent level data (CSV) 22 May 2024

Teen News Consumption Survey

Our research into news consumption across television, radio, print and online among children / teenagers aged 12-15.

Document Date published
Teens News Consumption Survey - Technical Report (PDF) 22 May 2024
Teens News Consumption Survey - online questionnaire (PDF) 22 May 2024
Teens News Consumption Survey data tables (XLSX) 22 May 2024
Teens News Consumption Survey respondent level data (CSV) 22 May 2024

UK General Election and Opinion Formation Survey

Document Date published
UK general election and opinion-formation survey 2024 report 10 September 2024
UK general election and opinion-formation survey 2024 data tables 10 September 2024
UK general election and opinion formation survey 2024 interactive report 10 September 2024
Arolwg newyddion a ffurfio barn Etholiad Cyffredinol 2024 y DU 10 September 2024

Older reports

This report provides the findings of Ofcom’s 2018 research into news consumption across television, radio, print and online. It is published as part of our range of market research reports which examine the consumption of content, and attitudes towards that content, across different platforms.

The aim of this slide pack report is to inform an understanding of news consumption across the UK and within each UK nation. This includes sources and platforms used,  the perceived importance of different outlets for news, attitudes to individual news sources, local news use and news consumption in the nations.

The primary source is Ofcom’s News Consumption Survey. The report also contains information from our Media Tracker survey, and a range of industry currencies including BARB for television viewing, Touchpoints for national newspaper readership, ABC for newspaper circulation, and comScore for online consumption.

Please note, because of changes we have made to the 2018 News Consumption Survey methodology, it is not possible to make direct comparisons to previous data. Further detail on how and why we changed the methodology can be found on slide 143 of the report.

News consumption in the UK: 2018 report (PDF, 2.6 MB)

News consumption in the UK: 2018 data tables (XLSX, 18.2 MB)

News consumption in the UK: 2018 questionnaire (PDF, 2.1 MB)

News consumption in the UK: 2018 raw data

News consumption in the UK: 2018 technical report (PDF, 183.3 KB)

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