The internet will overtake TV as the primary source for news consumers in the US, France, Italy, Australia and Spain within the next five years - according to an online poll.
But for Britain and Germany, TV news is set to remain as the leading source for obtaining news, in the findings of a survey by Harris Interactive.
The poll found half of adults in Australia - and more than half in France, the US and Spain - access online news and information sites at least once a day. The figures for Italy are higher at nearly 75%.
Fewer than a third of British adults polled do not regularly access news online and just over a quarter of Britons only access it about once a week.
The poll questioned nearly 9,000 adults in all from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Australia and the US.