Phone users, bombarded by news alerts, are switching them off, study shows | CNN Business

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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

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