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...