32%

24%

23%

6%

6%

6%

Direct

Search

Social media

Email

Mobile alerts

Aggregators

ﬁgure 7.4 Main way of accessing news online
Note. Respondents across thirty-seven markets were asked: “Which of these was the
MAIN way in which you came across news in the last week?” Base: 69,246.
Data. Newman et al. (2018). See www.digitalnewsreport.org for more information.

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Europe and other polarized pluralist countries, however, where the opposite is
generally true, distributed discovery is clearly more widely used.
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