How many of us pay for online news?

As well as digital advertising, many online news publishers require readers to pay to access their content. This could be through a subscription (often combined with a print subscription) or per-article payments. Research from our Digital News Report 2018 found that 14% of respondents across the 37 countries surveyed have paid for online news in the last year, with Scandinavia being the region with the highest proportion of people paying to read online news.