Statistics Norway has been conducting annual surveys of media use since 1991 (with the execption of 1993). The objective of the studies is to map the Norwegian population's use of different types of media. The surveys are financed mainly by the Ministry of Culture.

Below you can find survey results documenting newspaper readership, print and online, the average day. Readership of print newspapers online includes use of news sites belonging to newspaper with print editions. Questions about use of other news sites were included i 2016. Data are given as share of population, and can be broken down by age.

Comparative data for Norway and the other Nordic countries can be found at Nordicom.