Many smartphones users have grown weary of news alerts — the notifications regularly popping up on their screens to inform them of breaking news or other world events — according to a new analysis.
A global survey by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that 79% of respondents do not receive any news alerts during a typical week — and that 43% of those report having actively disabled such notifications.
Those active disablers switch off alerts “either because they feel they get too many or because they are not useful,” according to the report, published Tuesday.
