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Initial surge in news use around coronavirus in the UK has been followed by significant increase in news avoidance
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In this RISJ Factsheet we examine news avoidance during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK. This is the third in a series of ten factsheets based on an ongoing online panel survey of a representative sample of the UK population, fielded from 7 May to 13 May 2020. We find that: (i) there has been a significant increase in news avoidance, with 22% saying they often or always actively try to avoid the news (up from 15% in mid-April), (ii) women (26%) are more likely to avoid news than men (18%), compounding existing gender inequalities in news use, (iii) the vast majority of those who always or often avoid news (86%), say they are trying to avoid COVID-19 news at least some of the time, with most primarily worried about the effect it has on their mood (66%).
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.60625/risj-qrkn-pb36
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0281jqk77
- Funding agency for:
- Fletcher, R
- Nielsen, RK
- Kalogeropoulos, A
- Publisher:
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
- Series:
- UK COVID-19 News and Information Project
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2020-05-19
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- Paper number:
- 3
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English
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1105791
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pubs:1105791
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2020-05-21
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- Reuters Institute
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © Reuters Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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