Band 6+: You should spend 20 minutes on this task. The chart below shows the percentage of people accessing news media via different media in one country in 2013, 2015, and 2017. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisions where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The given bar chart illustrates the proportion of individuals who used different devices to consume news media in one country, over the period of 2013, 2015 and 2017.

Overall, it is clearly seen that the leading figure was television for all years, however, by the latest times internet outpaced it once. Notably, newspapers had a downward trend, whereas radio nearly remained unchanged.

First of all, in 2013, television showed almost 80% which was the peak for all sections. While, by 2015, it decreased to 68%, after that it slightly rose by 2% next 2 years. In comparison, radio was 32% in 2013 and declined to 30% by 2015 and stayed constant for next 2 years.

As for newspapers, it witnessed a downward trend. It ranked second among year of 2013, in contrast with other figures with the number accounting for 40%. For the next years it started to decline by 10% each 2 years. Compared to newspapers, internet devices experienced the upward trend,starting with 30% and 40% respectively. By 2017 it skyrocketed to 70% which was the highest rate for 2017 year.