The line chart illustrates the proportion of individuals who consumed news from 4 different sources, including TV, newspaper, radio, and Internet between 1995 and 2025. Overall, throughout the 3-decades period, there was an increase in the percetage of new consumers on the Internet, while people acccesed news in the other three sources wittnessed a decline. In addition, the figure for the TV was the highest initially, but was then overtaken by the Internet by the end of the period.
Indetail, in 1995, the figure of people who accessed news on TV account for the highest proportion, reaching around 70%. After that, the figure fell sharply to approximately 58% in 2000, and then continued to decline until the end of the period, despite a shightly increase in 2010. Similar changes, at the beginning of the period in 1995, newspapers and radio ranked second and third of among news sources, with around 55% and 52% of people accessing news through them, respectively. However, both figures then showed a downward trend, then fell more sharply the same rate from about 50% to nearly 42% from 2000 and 2010, ending at roughly 28% and 21%, respectively.
In contrast, there was no Internet in 1995, so it was least used source. Nevertheless, its usges then rose sharply from 2000 to 2010, reaching just over 30%, and overtook TV near the end of the period, becoming the most popular source for accessing news.