📌 Our Digital News Report 2024 is out! The most comprehensive report on news consumption worldwide. 🗺️ 47 markets 📋 95,000 respondents Here are some key findings: 1. We find a further decline in the use of Facebook for news. It's gone from 42% to 26% since 2016 in the 12 markets we've tracked in the last 10 years. Our data shows a growing reliance on a range of alternatives including messaging apps and video networks. 2. These top line figures hide big geographical differences: -Many still use Facebook for news in Philippines, Colombia and Malaysia. -TikTok is huge (and growing rapidly) in Thailand, Kenya, Indonesia and other markets of the Global South. 3. Video is becoming a more important source of online news, especially for the young. Short videos are accessed by 66% of our global sample, with longer formats attracting around half (51%). 4. The report documents the rise of a new generation of news creators. A good example is Hugo Decrypte, who produces explainer videos on TikTok and YouTube and was cited by respondents more often than French legacy publishers Le Monde or Le Figaro. 5. Concern about online misinformation has risen by 3 points in the last year with 59% saying they are worried about it. In terms of platforms, concern is highest for TikTok and X. 6. As publishers embrace the use of AI, we find widespread public suspicion about how it might be used, especially for ‘hard’ news stories. 7. We find little growth in news subscriptions, with 17% saying they paid for news online. Norway (40%) and Sweden (31%) have the highest %, and Japan (9%) and the UK (8%) the lowest. In many countries we find evidence of heavy discounting. 8. Trust in the news (40%) has remained stable over the last year, but is still four points lower than it was at the height of COVID-19. 9. High standards, a transparent approach, lack of bias, and fairness in terms of media representation are the 4 primary factors that influence trust 🔗 Read the report online in HTML and PDF in English and Spanish on our website: https://lnkd.in/dsFtKZHy #DNR24
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The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, established in autumn 2006, is based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. The Thomson Reuters Foundation has supported a programme of visiting fellowships for journalists from around the world based at what is now Green Templeton College in Oxford since 1983. The RISJ builds on this tradition and is now a university research centre for international comparative journalism. Anchored in the recognition of the key role of independent media in open societies and the power of information in the modern world, the Institute aims to serve as the leading forum for a productive engagement between scholars from a wide range of disciplines and the practitioners of journalism. It brings the depth and rigour of academic scholarship of the highest standards to major issues of relevance to the world of practice of news media. It is global in its perspective and in the content of its activities. Its expanded activities include short-term and long-term research projects, a regular series of seminars, workshops, annual conferences, debates and innovative curricular development, both independently and in meaningful collaboration with other centres in Oxford University and with the global world of practice.
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Nic Newman
Senior Research Associate at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University. Also Digital media and product consultant working on…
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Antonio Zappulla, OMRI
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Alice Antheaume
Directrice de l'Ecole de journalisme de @sciencespo. Correspondante du Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. Comité…
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Laura Oliver
Freelance journalist, editor and audience engagement consultant
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How do people feel about the amount of news they are faced with? 😫Across markets, around four in ten (39%) say they feel ‘worn out’ by the amount of news these days, up from 28% in 2019, frequently mentioning the way that coverage of wars, disasters, and politics was squeezing out other things. Click to read: https://lnkd.in/dyr93msx
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What are audiences hoping to gain from news coverage? 🔄Our findings show that the three most important user needs globally are staying up to date (‘update me’), learning more (‘educate me’), and gaining varied perspectives (‘give me perspective’). Click to read #DNR24 executive summary: https://lnkd.in/dyr93msx
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"Nobody benefits from no one knowing what’s going on in Russia. He felt like it was his duty to document how the country is changing" Our Katherine Dunn profiled Evan Gershkovich, who's just been sentenced to 16 years in jail in Russia #IStandwithEvan Read in the link below https://lnkd.in/etYzvBda
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What do audiences think the news should offer them? How are we meeting those needs? 🙂Audiences say updating is the most important need, but also think that the media do a good job in this area already. There is a much bigger gap in providing different perspectives and also around the news that ‘makes me feel better about the world’ Read: https://lnkd.in/dyr93msx
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This week we re-opened the (virtual) doors to the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, and welcomed our latest cohort. Between now and December we’ll spend time building community with 101 media professionals from dozens of countries. What’s the OCJN? It’s a programme dedicated to lifting up the stories we hear about climate change. It's about improving not just the quantity of those stories in the media, but the quality. It's been funded by European Climate Foundation and Laudes Foundation and run by our colleagues Diego Arguedas Ortiz Katherine Dunn and Greg Cochrane under the leadership of Mitali Mukherjee. This week we met the reporters, newsroom leaders and content makers who’ll spend the next six months joining us for a series of seminars, workshops and discussions. They’ll also create a community of their own, and eventually join up with the 500+ journalists who’ve come through the programme since 2022. We keep growing, month-on-month. Climate change is a global issue. It requires a global response. In the media, that means everyone from the local newsroom to multi-national outlets. We can’t wait to get to know our new colleagues better, regularly convene to exchange expertise and build positive outcomes together. We'll keep posted throughout the autumn on how it's going. #climatechange #climatejournalism #netzero https://lnkd.in/dqqQde6k
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What are the top news topics for different age groups? 📰For all age groups, local and international news are considered the most important topics. Political news doesn’t feature in the top five for under-35s but it is a very different story for over-45s where politics remains firmly in the top three. Click to read: https://lnkd.in/dyr93msx
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As another (academic) year draws to a close, it brings a time of learning, sharing, building networks and assessing the goals of journalism to a close. I feel incredibly lucky to be part of this journey, as a journalist of course but also as a member of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism where we constantly strive to build spaces for that engagement, through our research, through the programmes we curate for journalists and news leaders and the stories that we highlight on the news, and about the news. Most of all, glad to celebrate our partners, who believe in the value of deep and thoughtful research around the industry and the incomparable value of supporting the backbone of the news industry - its journalists. #journalism #news
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"It is a central mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene. This magazine incites hatred against Jews, people with a history of migration and our parliamentary democracy in an unspeakable manner" 🇩🇪 Germany bans right-wing extremist Compact magazine https://lnkd.in/eCTJ5xHe
Germany bans right-wing extremist Compact magazine – DW – 07/16/2024
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On Wednesday The Wall Street Journal fired journalist Selina Cheng after she took the position of new chair of Hong Kong Journalists Association. The HKJA said it was "outraged" by the paper's decision. The WSJ denies that there was any link between Cheng’s HKJA position and her termination. In a statement posted on X, Cheng suggested the editor who fired her said: "Employees of WSJ shouldn't be advocating for #pressfreedom in a place like HK, even though they can in Western countries, where it is already established" More details in the link below https://lnkd.in/eY4T9sSw
Wall Street Journal fires new chair of Hong Kong Journalists Association
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