The proportion of people who are “news-deprived” in Switzerland has risen to a record 46%, while the overall quality of the media remains good, says a new study by the University of Zurich. The yearly study, released on Monday by the Research Center for the Public Sphere and Society (fög) at the University of Zurich, also found that users of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), SWI swissinfo.ch’s parent company, often consume private media as well. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In all, 61% of SBC users also consume private media; by comparison, 38% of people who do not consume SBC news programmes also consume private media, reports fög in the Quality of Media Yearbook. Commuter and tabloid media were also consumed more frequently across all channels by SBC users compared to non-users of the public service networks. The same applies to the online sector. Only around 4% of all respondents consumed just SBC news online. This is significantly lower …