News consumption in the UK

Ofcom is currently in the process of reviewing the News Survey in order to ensure that it remains fit for purpose. This means that there may be differences to the next survey including different questions and a different methodology. The 2015 executive summary and accompanying slide pack report provide the key findings of Ofcom’s 2015 research into news consumption across television, radio, print and online. The aim of the 2015 report was to inform an understanding of news consumption across the UK, and within each UK nation. The findings were published as part of our range of market research publications that examine people’s consumption of, and attitudes towards, different types of content on different platforms. The report provides data on various news consumption measures, including the sources and platforms used, the use of local news, the perceived importance of different outlets for news, attitudes to individual news sources, the reasons people follow news, and news consumption in the nations. It also compares the 2015 news consumption findings with those from the previous two years, where possible. The report also provides ‘share of references’ data. This is a cross-media measure used by Ofcom to compare the share of individual news sources, consumed across all platforms.