*Respondents in the United States, Canada, Malaysia, South Africa, and Turkey were aged 18 to 74 years old, and 16 to 74 years old in all other participating countries.
Question: How often do you get your news from a print or digital service you pay for a subscription for?
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Paid news subscription service frequency worldwide 2020
According to the results of a global survey on news consumption and media trust, respondents from most countries around the world never used any kind of news subscription service, with ** percent reporting that this was the case, compared to just *** percent who did so every day. News consumers in Brazil, India, Malaysia, and Sweden were the most likely to subscribe to a print or digital news service and read news this way on a daily basis, whilst over ** percent of Japanese, British, and Canadian respondents said that they never used such a service to read news.
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