Desktop holds off smartphones as consumers' preferred news platform

Overview of digital news consumption by device in nine key markets, 2017.

Despite the rise of mobile and tablet based devices, almost half of consumers (46.6%) in nine key markets who accessed online news in the preceding week of being surveyed, still report a PC/laptop as being their "main" means of digital news consumption, according to data from Reuters and the University of Oxford. Smartphones have nonetheless become a close second (36.0%), having risen steadily since their introduction to the mass market. Tablets were the device of choice of 10.3% of people.

In Japan, PC/ laptops posted highest, on 55.8%, at the expense of connected/smart TVs and tablets, which...

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