Online news in Brazil
A study conducted annually among Brazilian internet users suggests that, in recent years, more than half of them read news online. As of 2022, the share stood at 54 percent. But they also seem to prefer legacy media titles that entered the web environment, as opposed to enterprises created exclusively for the online mediascape. At the end of 2023, the five most popular independent news websites in Brazil had between 3.3 million and 17.8 million unique visitors. Meanwhile, the online versions of print diaries like O Globo, Veja, Folha de S. Paulo, and Valor Econômico had between 22.3 million and 40.8 million unique visitors at that time. That makes them the most visited Brazilian newspaper websites, even though three of the leading sites have paywalls hindering unregistered and unpaying users from viewing multiple stories.Mexico: news stories on TV
Television reigns supreme among the leading offline news brands in Mexico. A 2023 survey showed that over one-third of responding internet users checked the news on TV Azteca and/or on Televisa, the country's top free TV channels, at least once a week. While the ratings confirm the preference for Azteca, they also indicate a fondness for Las Estrellas, run by TelevisaUnivision. During a single week in mid-2023, the two channels encompassed all of Mexico's most-viewed TV programs. Internet users, on the other hand, tended to seek information in platforms derived from print newspapers. The most visited Mexican news websites in early 2022 were Milenio and El Heraldo de México, two diaries founded about half a century ago.
