Proportion of UK journalists who think they have the freedom to do each of the following and proportion who think there is media freedom in the UK

Journalists think they have slightly more freedom to decide which aspects of a story to emphasise than freedom to select stories.

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auto1. Thinking of your work overall, how much freedom do you personally have in selecting the news stories you work on? auto2. And how much freedom do you personally have in deciding which aspects of a story should be emphasized? freedom. In your view, how much freedom do the news media have in the United Kingdom? Base: 1127. Note: Don’t knows were excluded.

Source: 'UK journalists in the 2020s: Who they are, how they work, and what they think', published in April 2025.