There was nothing on the online scroll yesterday afternoon.
Keep in mind that it is a professional and serious newspaper and not a TV media channel like CNN or Fox News. They need to confirm and verify the facts before they push that publish button. No one ever hears “And now live from the NY Times…”
I sometimes buy a newspaper at the airport. No subscriptions.
But, we live in Switzerland and we pay SERAFE which sustains TV news.
Ah, whatever happened to the Sunday Sport
“Topless conductors discovered on London double deck bus on the moon, or Antarctica. “
This and many more findings on news usage in the new Reuters Digital News Report.
Does Social Media count as paid news if it is paid for? E.g. an X Premium subscription. Or does X news count as news?
No.
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I find it surprisingly high given the amount of free online news sources that it competes with.
It would be more revealing to compare this with the amount paid for printed news in the same countries.
It could be that countries such as the UK and Italy still have a thriving printed newspaper industry compared with countries at the top of the list and not that UK and Italy consume less news overall.
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Seems you are correct! (For the UK, at least).
Younger consumers are reading printed newspapers more frequently
Weekly readership of printed newspapers has increased by +3.9
percentage points to 23.5%. The growth is driven by consumers
in the 25-34 age bracket (+9pp increase to 26.5%), who are most
likely to pick up a paper once or twice a week. At the same time,
the percentage of this age group who read digital news daily has
decreased from 27.5% to 19.0%
From here (p16)
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I read the papers in the UK for all my adult life. Last one there was The Independent.
Then in CH for a special treat I’d tram down to Zurich HB on a Sunday morning at about 11.00 for The Sunday Times - flown in that day for CHF7.00.
Today I have a digital subscription to The Times and Sunday Times at £9.90/month. Subscribed when it started over 12 years ago…
“20 Minuten” is discontinuing its daily print edition from 2026.
Not to me, it doesn’t
And it annoys me to hear Swiss (and European) politicians still post on X or when SRF passes on information that was posted on X.
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But BlueSky is so cool!
Bet you said that about facebook back in 2004. 
Although back then it probably was, I can’t say as I never joined.
However, to each their own.
SRF News Bot sounds somewhat disconcerting. The bots I was confronted with so far were all real idiots.
Actually! I never liked Facebook much. Only joined because family put their pics there. Whatsapp was cool back then till Meta bought it up. Now they are going to stuff ads into it! But hell! How else can I call friends and family for free when out of CH?
Use signal
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It is sooooo hard to get people on to Signal. I have no idea why.
Now that we know that even the current US government can do it, it’s even harder to understand.
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Yeah! Should give it a try. But don’t know anyone using it yet.
There is also a few other alternatives. Problem is getting contacts to also use em.
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you’ll find out once you installed it.
And you can invite all those who are not using it yet.
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