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1 in 4 Americans Use a Smartphone to Access Online News

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Online news access by smartphone or tablet is becoming more and more popular in the United States. Meanwhile, one in four Americans uses a smartphone to access online news and 16 percent consume news via tablet. This is one result of the Digital News Report, published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism last week.

The report examines various aspects of news consumption across different markets, and contains a mixed bag of results for the struggling newspaper industry. The research was conducted at the end of January/beginning of February 2013.

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This chart shows the percentage of the population that accesses online news by smartphone and tablet in selected countries.

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Share of respondents using a smartphone to access news in the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2022
Devices used for reading online news in the United States from 2013 to 2022
Share of respondents using a tablet to access news in the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2022
Share of household members in the United States who read news pages on their smartphone in the past month in 2022, by income
When you look for news on a mobile or tablet, which of the following statements most applies to you?*
Devices used for online news consumption in the United Kingdom as of February 2022

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