Mobile news has us hooked on small screens

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The increasing addiction to mobile phones is a key finding in a report on Australians' digital habits to be released in Canberra on Wednesday.

Local news scores the highest points, followed by international news and crime, but we are not as in love with the antics of celebrities as the tabloids' coverage would suggest.

Unsurprisingly, the report finds that while 38 per cent of the 2021 respondents paid for a newspaper in the week before the survey, only 10 per cent paid for digital news in the past year.

The University of Canberra's News & Media Research Centre was the Australian partner in the report, a global survey of news consumption led by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.

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News and Media; Social Media