📌 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
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Laura Oliver
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How many people use TikTok for news? 📱TikTok remains a popular platform with younger groups and the proportion using it for news has grown to 13% (+2) across all markets and 23% for 18–24s. There are notable regional differences in TikTok use for news, with lower proportions across the Global North and rapid growth in Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia. Click to read more of our #DNR24: https://lnkd.in/dyr93msx
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How can we use personalisation to advance public interest journalism? This is the question at the heart of a new project by our Australian Journalist Fellow Laura Gartry, who spent her time in Oxford examining several approaches to personalisation and interviewing experts from academia and from publishers in Australia, Canada, India, Sweden and UK. 🎯 What did she find? Laura realised that media companies approached personalisation in different ways, depending on their editorial priorities. “Most news publishers produce a tonne of content that the public has no interest in and will never discover. So, if you can focus your resources on stuff that really matters and make it easy for people to find it, you’re doing your news organisation a service and building a better society,” said Sonali Verma, who led personalisation at Canada's The Globe and Mail. A key quote: "Protecting public interest journalism while personalising the news is not just a technical challenge but an ethical one. It requires thoughtful integration of technology with sound editorial judgement and clear principles. If we get it right, there are many rewards to reap," Laura writes in her summary piece. Read Laura's project below #journalism #AI #PSM #publicbroadcasting #news #innovation https://lnkd.in/dkvxxJAQ
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"They can easily silence us by putting pressure on our children so it became clear that I had to stay abroad to continue working as a journalist." Investigative journalists are suffering a crackdown on press freedom in Kyrgyzstan with many being forced to work from exile. https://lnkd.in/eCTiuKjm
In Kyrgyzstan, an ‘unprecedented crackdown’ on free press raises alarm
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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
Evan Gershkovich felt it was his “duty” to document a country shaped by war and repression. Then he was arrested
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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