Tuning out TV news might be behind the decline in media trust. (No, really!)
A new wide-ranging study finds that trust in news has fallen further in countries where television news use has declined, as well as in countries where more people are turning to social media for news....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Many people don’t pay full price for their news subscription. Most don’t want...
It’s no secret that news publishers have struggled to make money and sustain their businesses in the digital era. Ad revenue has been siphoned away by Big Tech and money from print advertising has been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Worldwide, news publishers face a “platform reset”
“News use across online platforms is fragmenting”: That’s one of the findings from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) in its 2024 Digital News Report, out Monday. As the use...
View ArticleHow uncritical news coverage feeds the AI hype machine
“I would put media reporting [about AI] at around two out of 10,” David Reid, professor of artificial intelligence at Liverpool Hope University, said to the BBC earlier this year. “When the media talks...
View Article“Mutual incomprehension now exists seemingly everywhere”: The New York Times’...
On Monday, March 4, New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger gave the annual Reuters Memorial Lecture at Oxford University. (We wrote previously about an interview he gave beforehand.) He took the...
View Article“It got too expensive to have all the subscriptions”: How people think about...
A few years back, German publisher Spiegel decided to try something new: A cheaper Spiegel+ digital subscription just for readers under 30. It’s €2.99 per week, compared to €4.99 per week for readers...
View ArticleJournalists can help explain climate’s role in extreme weather, even before...
In November 2020, Colombia, my home country, was hit for the first time by a Category 5 hurricane. Iota, as it was named, reached the islands of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The “passive news consumer” is on the rise
The rise of social media signaled the promise of a new public square, facilitating more open debate and diverse voices. With these new opportunities for digital participation also came a host of new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
People don’t want robots picking their headlines (but they don’t really want...
Even though the use of social media as a source of news has seen little growth in recent years, this year’s Digital News Report again highlights the centrality of social media, search engines, news...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Worldwide, online news is looking a lot more like TikTok and a lot less like...
Facebook’s exit from news tracks tracks with a move toward TikTok and Youtube, and a worldwide decrease in commenting on and sharing news articles. That’s one of the findings from Oxford’s Reuters...
View Article“Tell a more complete story” and other lessons from a new report on mistrust...
There’s a new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism that focuses on distrust of news media — and what news organizations might be able to do about it. Let’s get the bad news out...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Readers expect news orgs to be impartial, but don’t reward them for it
This summer, CNN’s new CEO, Chris Licht, wrote in a note to employees: “We are truth-tellers, focused on informing, not alarming our viewers.” Since he came on board in May, Licht has spoken about the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“The differences seem to be growing”: A look at the rising generation of news...
Using data from the 2022 Reuters Institute Digital News Report, we show that younger audiences increasingly consume and think about news differently than older audiences do. They are more casual news...
View ArticleClik here to view.
As traditional news use declines, online news isn’t making up the gap
The pandemic brought a bump in news consumption that now seems to be fading away, Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) found in its 2022 Digital News Report, out this week....
View ArticleClik here to view.
People mistrustful of news make “snap judgments” to size up outlets
How do people who have low trust in news sources decide which publications to trust? That’s the central question behind a newly published report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nearly two thirds of media leaders think their climate crisis coverage is...
It’s a new year, and the media industry’s problems from 2021 and years past will carry into 2022. Chief among them, though, is covering the climate crisis. A new report from the Reuters Institute for...
View ArticleUK news publisher Archant is closing most of its offices because “home...
You know they mean it when they start reducing their office space: The UK regional publisher Archant will close 8 of its 12 offices by March, PressGazette reported Wednesday. “We have seen, time and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The people who trust news least aren’t necessarily loud and angry — they’re...
Conversations about trust in news often tend to focus on folks who are actively hostile to certain brands — people wearing “CNN FAKE NEWS” and rioting in the Capitol, people assaulting journalists at...
View ArticleThe great unbundling of local news
Traditional local news sources, especially local newspapers, used to bundle news and information on a whole range of local topics. Local politics comes first to mind. But they have also covered stories...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Many people worldwide say they’re losing interest in news … but more are...
The past year has been unusual for media consumption: With the pandemic keeping more people home, residents of Western Europe watched more TV news than usual. The growth of podcasts slowed since fewer...
View Article
![[-100%] Commodity Intelligence – (Android Apps)](http://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/j67-qJvmnn4xnVlYVZ9ZhtZUJIgwjKekJGoKQT6D1KHcWGZxtQaFroummEvwV17na7tyh1pGbbeWCRdWtTKqeg=w950-h950)
