Where do you get your news?

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Just that. With the collapse of 'the mainstream media' I just wonder where everyone sees/reads news these days? Does anyone still buy a physical paper and, if they do, do they actually sit down and read it through? Are there many people who never look at, e.g., the BBC or the big newspapers but just at news on Facebook or other social media? News that's served to you vs a news outlet that you have to check in a separate app? Anything that qualifies as a 'local news' outlet? Any dedicated international news? Or, if you don't keep up with the news, was that a choice (too depressing these days, no time, subscriptions too expensive) or something else...?

Yes, I'm a journalist - sorry - but am not selling anything or researching for an article, just wondering for my own interest. I keep hearing about how much misinformation people seem to be getting, and I just wonder where they're getting it and why it isn't balanced by the weight of a 'mainstream' view...?

BBC news
Sky news
Press and journal (local paper)

Avoid the Daily Mail (racist rag)

News sites, TV, social media, the internet and debates. I then like to fact check because anyone can make an untruth go viral these days. The recent knife attack on the train is perfect example of that.

BBC, Sky news.
Most of the newspapers which I read for free on PressReader

BBC radio 4
The Grauniad.

I look at the BBC news online, occasionally see it on TV and of course the hourly news on the radio (which is on the the background constantly).
NEVER look for news on FB (or any other similar site) and have not bought a newspaper for over a decade (probably closer to two🤔).

The Telegraph, GB News and Talk TV.

Apple News feed. Hardly ever watch or listen these days. Just read.

Oh and bbc news and sky news on the apps

BBC news, sky news, I follow a few journalists on Twitter, The Newsagents podcast. Local paper's online articles when they get shared in my local Facebook group.

Don't think I've ever bought a paper.

Surely your non-journalistic, just for personal interest research would have been of more use if you’d asked people to include their age?

Guardian online
Radio 4
Occasionally a 24/7 news channel if there is something critical happening like the train stabbing
Local paper online for local news
Online articles from a variety of sources eg Church Times, occasionally tabloids if I want to see their take on something.

BBC News, topped up by Sky.

I gave up buying papers about 10 years ago.

Times and Telegraph websites.
Radio 4.
A little bit (headlines only) from X/Twitter.

I stopped watching TV news about 5 or 6 years ago because it just became so dumbed down and patronising. Haven't missed it at all.

Mainly the bbc. Sometimes sky, sometimes channel 4.
Read the Times occasionally.
Mainstream media essentially.
Sometimes pick up that something has happened from Facebook or even on here but would then go straight to the bbc news website to read about it.

BBC Radio 4 - particularly the Today programme
BBC1 news
The Guardian paper

BBC .

BBC news and radio 4 news. But for real insight I am subscribed to Private Eye - proper journalism, not just press releases or sourced from social media, which even the BBC seems to do nowadays.

These plus ch 4 news.

Guardian app
Times app (v cheap offer but will stop it once it's gone up from a £1 a month).
Telegraph

BBC website (rarely watch the news anymore).

Radio 4 - not just the news but analysis programmes.

Politics podcasts.

The Economist when I something pops up that sparks my interest (have a subscription through work). That does seem balanced and well researched.

Well, but because it was non-journalistic and just for personal interest I asked just what I was interested in, without regard for its wider utility 😁I also think it's increasingly less likely that the traditional demographic metrics can tell us much about, e.g., who's seeing dis-/misinformation and where. I know older people who've completely ditched traditional news for Facebook, for example; I also know people under 30 who read or listen to mainstream news...

Radio 4
Reuters
BBC. I love the fact that both my left wing AND my right wing friends think that the BBC is biased against them, so, while I have issues with some of the BBC's reporting, I think that on the whole it must have it reasonably ok if it pisses off both sides!

I've started to read Ground news (shows bias left , centre and right). Interesting to see who does/doesn't report on what stories.

My favourite thing about people (understandably at times) not trusting mainstream media is that instead they trust some random person on TikTok.

I listen to LBC (I'm a bit addicted tbh!)

I get a newspaper on Saturday and Sunday. It's my treat to me.

during the week I read the online version of most papers that are freer, I read Sky News and Reuters online

Guardian, Financial Times for proper newspaper stuff. Bluesky for stuff in my sector, and Instagram for the tennis news.