Daily or weekly reach of different media categories in the Nordic countries, –2021

Daily or weekly reach of different media categories in the Nordic countries, –2021

Method and data description

This set of tables and graphs shows daily or weekly reach of different media categories (newspapers, radio, podcasts, TV, online video, social media, etc.). Daily media reach: Norway and Sweden 2007–2021, and Finland, 2016–2020. Weekly media reach: Denmark, 2017–2020. (2021 updates for Finland are expected throughout September, while updates for Denmark are not available.)

Listening to podcasts in the Nordic countries, –2022

Listening to podcasts in the Nordic countries, –2022

Different methods have been used, which impairs comparability between countries. Data should be taken as indicators of the trend and level of listening. For example, data refer to different age groups (12+ in Denmark, 9–79 in Norway and Sweden, and 16–89 in Finland). The surveys are also conducted during different times of the year (Q3–4 in Denmark, throughout the year in Norway and Sweden, and Q1 in Finland), using different methods (telephone surveys in Denmark and Norway and a mixed collection method using both telephone interviews and web surveys in Finland and Sweden). 

Media and the Climate Crisis (Vol. 3, 2021)

Media and the Climate Crisis (Vol. 3, 2021)

This issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies presents a set of articles that address the intersection of media and the climate crisis from many angles and with a diversity of data, methods, and conceptual frameworks.

Cover of Nordic Journal of Media Studies 2021 vol. 3

Tobias Lindberg

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The Media Barometer  | 27 May 2021

Record high media consumption in 2020 – audiovisual media most popular

In 2020, the Swedish population’s daily media usage time was almost seven hours. Eight out of ten used social media networking services and seven out of ten read the daily newspaper on an average day. These are some of the results from the Swedish Media Barometer 2020.
Press release  | 26 April 2019

Swedish-Norwegian rivalry behind different media images of Johaug's doping scandal

Swedish and Norwegian media gave different images of the Norwegian ski star Therese Johaug's doping scandal, according to a new study published in the journal Nordicom Review. While the Norwegian media downplayed what happened, the Swedish reporting focused on the rivalry between the countries when it comes to cross-country skiing.