A survey held in February 2022 revealed that most consumers never use newspapers as a source of news, and only 21 percent of adults aged 65 or above (those who engage with newspapers the most) reported reading newspapers every day. Newspapers are less popular as a news source than radio, and are also among the least used daily news sources among adults aged 18 years or older.

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The statistic shows the number of newspaper readers in the United State in 2010 and 2014, by platform. The number of adults who read newspaper content online only increased from ************ in 2010 to ************ in 2014.

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Online newspapers started to gain popularity in the late *** with the rise of the internet. In parallel to this development, print media has seen its market share deteriorate over the years. Figures show a sharp decline of the print media, especially for daily newspapers in the U.S. The number of daily newspapers in the U.S. shrank by nearly ***, going from ***** in 1981 to the ***** in 2014. Daily newspaper readership in the U.S. has also dropped considerably in the last few years.This decline is not limited to the consumer's age; in the U.S., daily newspaper consumption has decreased across all age groups.

In line with this trend, the number of newspaper readers in the U.S. who read print newspaper and only print newspaper has declined between 2010 and 2014. In 2010, nearly ********** people read only print newspapers. This figure stood at about ********** in 2014. On the other hand, the number of readers who read newspaper content online increased from around ********** in 2010 to nearly ********** in 2014. The share of readers who read newspaper content online only nearly doubled during the same time period.

Despite this shift in readership between online and printed newspapers, credible and well-established newspapers brand have been able to reinvent themselves in this market. The New York Times, for example, was the most popular website of a print publication in the U.S. as of *********, and has recently reached a milestone for its online products. The New York Times Company's digital-only subscriber number has passed the *********** mark for the first time in 2015. Along with the New York Times, USA Today, Daily Mail, the Washington Post and the Guardian are leading newspapers in the U.S. in terms of unique website visitors.

The share of individuals reading daily newspapers on an average day in Sweden amounted to ** percent in 2024. The highest number recorded was ** in 2022.

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The popularity of reading printed newspapers in Norway daily has dramatically decreased since 2009. As of 2023, just ** percent of Norwegians stated to have read printed newspapers on an average day, compared to ** percent in 2009.

Survey on Adult Population Involvement in Learning Activities: Persons between 18 and 65 years who read newspapers by type of newspapers read, sex and nationality. National.

This statistic illustrates the proportion of young people who read newspapers outside of class in the United Kingdom from 2005 to 2016. In 2016, the percentage of school children aged 8 to 18 years who read newspapers was 22.2. Newspaper reading was more common than poems reading in 2016.

Survey on Adult Population Involvement in Learning Activities: Persons, by frequency with which they read newspapers, sex and age group. National.

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The dataset comprises Austrian newspaper pages from 19th and early 20th century with carefully annotated text. The page images were provided by the Austrian National Library and comprise 160 pages (training set). The data are formed according to the PAGE format (cf. Cf. https://github.com/PRImA-Research-Lab/PAGE-XML/) and were produced with the Transkribus platform with support of the NewsEye and the READ project. The guidelines with which the AS GT was created are uploaded here as well.

From 2006 to 2022, both print and digital newspaper readership decreased in Italy. While in 2006 almost ** million people read newspapers on a regular basis (at least five times per week), in 2022, only *** million people were doing so. The decrease is even sharper where occasional readers are concerned - i.e. those who read newspapers at least once a week, with the number falling from over ** million in 2006 to just over ** million in 2022. Written articles? No, thanks This sharp decline could be explained in different ways. One of the most obvious reasonings could be attributing it exclusively to the fall in print press sales. Beside the overall decline of print newspapers however, a mild decrease occurred in online news consumption as well. This is clear evidence of the fact that not only sales of printed newspapers decreased, but also that this decline has not been counterbalanced by an increase of online copies. Because of this reason, it is possible to conclude that Italians are, in general, less and less interested in reading written articles. Instead, they prefer to inform themselves through social networks and TV, as this statistic shows. A different trend across Europe The conclusion proposed in the previous paragraph cannot be generalized for all European countries. Indeed, across Europe, the share of people reading online newspapers and magazines increased by almost *** percent from 2013 to 2017 , while Italy seems not to follow such European trend.

The dataset comprises finnish newspaper pages from 19th century with carefully annotated text. The page images were provided by the National Library Finland (NLF) and comprise 200 pages (training set). The data are formed according to the PAGE format (cf. Cf. https://github.com/PRImA-Research-Lab/PAGE-XML/) and were produced with the Transkribus platform with support of the NewsEye and the READ project. The guidelines with which the AS GT was created are uploaded here as well.

Data on newspaper reach in Canada in November 2023 revealed that ** percent of Boomers read newspapers each week. This marks a decrease of *** percent of Boomers who reported weekly print or digital newspaper readership in December 2021. Meanwhile, ** percent Millennials interviewed were reading newspapers on a weekly basis, the same as Gen X adults.

The dataset comprises French newspaper pages from 19th and early 20th century with annotated text. The page images were provided by the French National Library and comprise 183 pages (training set). The data are formed according to the PAGE format (cf. Cf. https://github.com/PRImA-Research-Lab/PAGE-XML/) and were produced with the Transkribus platform with support of the NewsEye and the READ project. The guidelines for creating AS GT were added to the 'Additional notes'.

Survey on Adult Population Involvement in Learning Activities: Persons, by frequency with which they read newspapers, sex and nationality. National.

The statistic shows the newspaper readership among students in Italy in 2014. As of the survey period, about 45.8 percent of the respondents never read newspapers, while 28.9 percent of the respondents read newspapers sometimes.

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A survey held in February 2022 revealed that white and Hispanic adults were most likely to read newspapers every day, with 12 percent reporting daily consumption. However, most consumers from all ethnic backgrounds said that they never used newspapers for news.