Media illiteracy by the numbers
News deserts 62% of the UK’s local authority districts have no daily local newspaper coverage
JICREG, 2019
Misinformation Only 2% of 8 – 16 year olds in the UK are able to spot fake news
All Party Parliamentary Group on Literacy, 2018
Exclusion 43% of leading news journalists were privately educated, yet this accounts for 7% of the country’s schoolchildren.
Sutton Trust, 2019