1、 Report Published 10 September 2024 News consumption in the UK:2024 Research findings Welsh translation available Contents Section Overview.3 Summary of findings.5 Annex Methodology.21 3 Overview This summary report provides the key insights from Ofcoms latest News Consumption Survey,which explores

2、UK adults and teens news consumption across television,radio,print and online(including social media,search engines,news aggregators and other websites and apps).The aim of this report and the accompanying documents is to inform an understanding of news consumption across the UK.This includes the so

3、urces 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.While the primary source for this report is Ofcoms News Consumption Survey,the report also draws on Barb1 for television viewing dat

4、a,Ofcoms Public Service Media(PSM)Tracker 2023 and Ofcoms 2022 Media Plurality and Online News research.Fieldwork for the adults survey this year took place across two waves:6 November 3 December 2023 and 26 February 23 March 2024.For ease of reporting,we refer to this latest survey data as 2024 thr

5、oughout.We compare back to 2018,excluding 2021 when there was no fieldwork due to the Covid pandemic.Comparisons with years before 2018 are not possible due to methodological changes.The 2024 UK General Election survey was set up to monitor UK adults interest in and engagement with news and current

6、affairs during the general election period,with a particular focus on how they form their opinions and their experiences of potential misinformation.This standalone survey acts as a complement to the News Consumption tracking survey.This will be published alongside this summary report.What we have f