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Social Inequalities in News Consumption

DOI: 10.60625/risj-sed9-rc04

Social inequalities have always shaped news consumption, and as we move from a relatively low choice offline media environment to a high choice online media environment with more intense competition for attention, social inequalities in news consumption may increase.

This factsheet focuses on social inequalities in news consumption in the UK to address the question of whether inequality is increasing as we move to a more digital media environment.

Published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism with the support of the Google News Initiative.

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Dr Antonis Kalogeropoulos

Dr. Antonis Kalogeropoulos is an Associate Professor in Political Communication at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. He is primarily interested... Read more about Dr Antonis Kalogeropoulos

Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is a Professor at the Department of Communication of the University of Copenhagen and a Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Before leaving Oxford in 2024, he worked at the Institute,... Read more about Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Authors

Dr Antonis Kalogeropoulos

Research Associate

Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Senior Research Associate