Communications and Digital Committee
Breaking News? The Future of UK Journalism
1st Report of Session 2019-21 - published 27 November 2020 - HL Paper 176
Contents
Figure 1: Average circulation per issue, UK national newspapers and regional publications
Figure 2: Average circulation per issue, UK consumer magazines
Box 1: The Cairncross Review and the Government’s response
Chapter 2: The changing production and consumption of journalism
Figure 3: Advertising expenditure 2011–19, UK
Figure 4: Advertising expenditure 2011–19, UK
Figure 5: Trust in different occupations (per cent of population)
Figure 6: Trust in media (per cent of population, 2019)
Figure 7: Brand trust scores, 2019
Figure 8: UK Twitter v non-Twitter users by age
Figure 9: UK Twitter v non-Twitter users by education
Chapter 3: Journalism as a career
Table 1: Number of journalists by employment type
Table 2: Percentage breakdown of journalists working in each area
Educational background of journalists
Chapter 4: A sustainable future for journalism
Figure 10: Digital ad spend in the UK as a share of total
advertising revenue (in 2019 prices)
Box 4: The open display advertising market
Figure 11: Google’s roles in advertising intermediation
Box 5: Regulating in a Digital World
Table 3: Sources of website traffic for online publishers
Box 6: Journalism funding schemes
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Table 4: Use of news sources, 2020
Box 7: Charitable status criteria
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/work/28/the-future-of-journalism/publications/ and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.