The line chart illustrates the proportion of individuals obtaining information from four news sources from 1995 to 2025.
Overall, TV, newspaper and radio experienced a declining pattern in their popularity while the Internet recorded a significant growth to emerge as the most preferred news platform over the given period.
Regarding the sources with decreasing trends, the number of people accessing information from television comprised the highest figure at approximately 70% in 1995. This was followed by radio at roughly 58% and newspaper at 51%. Subsequently, the television’s figure exhibited a plunge to nearly 57% in 2007 before declining steadily to a half in 2025. Both radio and newspaper displayed a consistent decline in their popularity throughout the period. Those figures decreased at the same rate with predictions to reach about 30% and 25% in 2025 respectively.
As for the Internet, the figure demonstrated an upward trajectory as opposed to three other sources. The proportion of people retrieving news from the Internet accounted for 0%, which was the lowest figure at the beginning of period. The Internet exhibited a modest increase of only 2% in the number of individuals accessing news in 2005 before rocketing to 40% by the end of 2020, surpassing radio and newspaper. It is predicted that the Internet would outnumber television to become the most popular news platform in 2025.