The line graph shows changes in the share of people in a certain country using various mediums (TV, newspaper, radio, and Internet) to obtain their news from 1995 to the present day, as well as future estimates for 2025.
Overall, while the usage of the Internet for accessing news saw nothing short of an exponential rise, the remaining sources steadily declined in popularity, with these trends set to continue in 2025. It is also clear that TV dominated the news sharing landscape for most of the period, though it was eventually outstripped by the Internet.
The most popular medium in 1995 was TV, with nearly 80% of this country’s residents using it to get news. Over the ensuing two decades, however, this figure gradually fell and is likely to close at 50% in 2025.
Newspapers and radio followed similar trajectories to each other. Starting at around 55% in 1995, both sources experienced significant decreases over the entire period in question, though the former was consistently in the lead. By 2025, their respective figures will have dropped to 25% and just above 20%, making them the least used sources of news.
Ranked last in the first half of the study, the usage of the Internet changed upward slightly in the first few years prior to shooting up to over 50%, up from 0% in 1995.