The given charts illustrate the proportions of the various ways through which people access the news in two countries, Canada and Australia.
Overall, the most notable feature of this data is the dominance of online news portals in Australia, whereas television is the primary source of news for Canadians. The Canadian population displays a significantly greater reliance on traditional methods, such as print and radio, as compared to Australians.
The most popular ways by which the population accesses the news in both countries are online and TV sources. Online sources take up just above half, or fifty-two percent, of the news market in Australia, while TV is the second largest shareholder, resting at thirty-seven percent. However, the rankings of these mediums are reversed in Canada, with TV dominating the market at forty percent, and online news only used by about a third, or thirty-six percent, of the population.
The remaining two ways of accessing the news are the least popular in both countries; their rankings are similar as well. Paper-based news is the third most popular medium, and radio is the least used. Nonetheless, Canadians use these two methods more, with their print use twice as large as Australians’, at fourteen percent, and their radio use thrice as large, at seven percent.