Leading news sources in the UK 2023

In 2023, the leading news source which respondents to a survey in the United Kingdom reported using the most was BBC One, with 49 percent of participants aged 16 or older saying that this was the source they used for news nowadays. This was 13 percentage points lower than in 2018, though still higher than that of ITV and Facebook. One to watch in the years to come will be TikTok, with only one percent reporting to use it for news in 2020, a figure which had jumped to 10 percent in 2023.

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Release date

July 2023

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2018 to 2023

Number of respondents

2023: 4,556

Age group

16 years and older

Special properties

TV channels, newspapers, radio stations and websites/ apps

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview, online survey

Supplementary notes

Data for 2021 was not provided by the source.

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