This statistic displays the share of smartphone and tablet users using news apps and mobile web browsers to consume news in the United Kingdom in 2015, by device. Of tablet users, 47 percent reported mainly using news websites via the standard web browser on the device to consume news.
When you look for news on a mobile or tablet, which of the following statements most applies to you?*
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all who have accessed news via a smartphone or tablet in the last week
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Online survey
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* This question was phrased by the source as follows:"Thinking specifically about when you look for news on a MOBILE or TABLET, which of the following statements most applies to you?"
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (June 16, 2015). When you look for news on a mobile or tablet, which of the following statements most applies to you?* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 22, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/297876/mobile-app-vs-browser-use-for-news-by-device-uk/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. "When you look for news on a mobile or tablet, which of the following statements most applies to you?*." Chart. June 16, 2015. Statista. Accessed May 22, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/297876/mobile-app-vs-browser-use-for-news-by-device-uk/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (2015). When you look for news on a mobile or tablet, which of the following statements most applies to you?*. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 22, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/297876/mobile-app-vs-browser-use-for-news-by-device-uk/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. "When You Look for News on a Mobile or Tablet, Which of The following Statements Most Applies to You?*." Statista, Statista Inc., 16 Jun 2015, https://www.statista.com/statistics/297876/mobile-app-vs-browser-use-for-news-by-device-uk/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, When you look for news on a mobile or tablet, which of the following statements most applies to you?* Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/297876/mobile-app-vs-browser-use-for-news-by-device-uk/ (last visited May 22, 2025)
When you look for news on a mobile or tablet, which of the following statements most applies to you?* [Graph], Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, June 16, 2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/297876/mobile-app-vs-browser-use-for-news-by-device-uk/
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