Attitudes to news

Our 2026 News Report examines how UK adults and children aged 12 to 15 access news, and their attitudes towards different news providers and platforms.

Today we’ve published our 2026 News Report, our annual research looking at how people in the UK access and consume news, and how they feel about it.

One in five UK adults are now using AI tools such as ChatGPT to keep up to date with the latest news, according to Ofcom’s annual report on the nation’s news consumption habits.

Today we’ve published our latest research into news consumption in the UK, which shines a light on how people across the country access news.

In this Economics Discussion Paper, we use NLP to classify the topic of each news article read by a sample of people who had their internet use tracked over one month in 2021.

Four in ten UK adults say they had encountered misinformation or deepfake content in the previous four weeks, according to new Ofcom research.

This page provides the report, data, questionnaire and technical report from our quantitative research exploring mis and disinformation, carried out online from 27th June to 2nd July 2024 by YouGov, using respondents from YouGov’s online panel.

Television is no longer the single main source of news for UK adults, as Ofcom research shows online sites and apps are now as popular as TV news for the first time.

The 2024 news consumption survey concentrated on UK adults' engaement with the news during the UK 2024 General Election.

Online intermediaries, such as social media, search engines and other online aggregators exert a significant influence on the news stories people consume, according to new Ofcom research.