A woman reading a book in a library.
New publication  | 22 December 2022

Book-reading habits in a changing media landscape

A new Nordicom report investigates how digitalisation has affected the Swedish population’s book-reading habits and what they look like in different groups of the population. The report also looks into how book-reading habits were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the status of the book compared to other types of media.

Paying for online news per Nordic and European country, 2019-2023 (Reuters Institute)

Paying for online news per Nordic and European country, 2019-2023 (Reuters Institute)

Data are from the annual Digital News Report, published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (editions 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023). The research was conducted by YouGov, using an online questionnaire at the end of January/beginning of February 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 respectively. Important to note is that because this survey deals with news consumption, anyone indicating they had not consumed any news during the past month was filtered out.

A pile of folders.
News  | 2 November 2022

Press subsidies recurring subject in Swedish official reports

Press subsidies, public service, and advertisements are subjects frequently recurring in the Swedish government’s official reports on the media, according to Nordicom’s compilation of official reports. The compilation is updated once a year and includes reports from 1924 onwards.