📌 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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Laura Oliver
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As many news brands offer deals and discounts to attract paying readers, how many news subscribers are paying full price for their subscription? 💸Across all 20 markets, according to respondents, 41% of subscribers say they are not paying the full sticker price for news subscriptions. Find out more in our #DNR24 chapter on paying for news online: https://lnkd.in/e3uQpbYE
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How many people pay for online news? 🫰According to our latest #DNR24 data, the proportion that pay for online news across 20 countries is 17% - a figure that has not changed in the last three years. Click to read: https://lnkd.in/e3uQpbYE
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How do top audience needs vary around the world? 💡In around two-thirds of the market surveyed, the ‘knowledge’ need is the most important user need, with ‘understanding’ ahead in the remaining one-third of cases. Click to read the #DNR24 chapter on user needs: https://lnkd.in/dXZCmghg
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Does news avoidance affect which user needs audience members say are important to them? ⤴️At the more granular level of specific user needs, ‘update me’ (72%), ‘educate me’ (67%) and ‘give me perspective’ (63%) emerge as the most important. 'Inspire me' and 'divert me' are more important for news avoiders than non-news avoiders. Click to read the #DNR24 chapter on user needs https://lnkd.in/dXZCmghg
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🧠 What is the most important user need? According to #DNR24, news that satisfies the basic needs of knowledge and understanding is deemed very or somewhat important by two-thirds of the population across our 47 markets. Click to read: https://lnkd.in/dXZCmghg
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A network of Russia-based websites is generating fake and misleading news articles, seemingly published by American-sounding news outlets, aimed at US voters, according to a six-month investigation by BBC Verify. https://lnkd.in/eZTW34HH
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For our Italian speakers: Leggete l'ultima edizione della nostra newsletter mensile in italiano in collaborazione con il Master in Giornalismo dell'Università degli Studi di Torino. La newsletter di luglio parla di #DNR24, il primo Digital News Report Italia e contiene cinque domande a Gian-Paolo Accardo, direttore di Voxeurop. https://lnkd.in/d6D-fFub Se ancora non la ricevi, iscriviti qui: https://lnkd.in/gCXBtmh4
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NEW PODCAST! What do audiences say news is for and how do news organisations satisfy these needs? Our latest podcast hosted by @fedecherubini, explores the range of user needs that news satisfies beyond just keeping audiences informed. Our guest is Richard Fletcher, who's authored a #DNR24 chapter on this topic. 🧠 The most important user needs "Across all 47 markets where we did the survey this year, we find 'knowledge' needs - so 'keep me up to date on what's happening', and 'keep me engaged with the news' was the most important alongside 'understanding'. 👩🏼 How importance of user needs varies "News that 'inspires' people, or 'diverts' people, 'entertains' them can become relatively more important for news avoiders, for example. And in some cases for younger people as well." 👏How well the media meets these needs "Overall, people think that the news media does best at serving knowledge-based needs. So in particular, 'update me' (64%). People are slightly less likely to say that the news media does a good job in helping them 'understand' what's happening, and less well still, when it comes to needs around 'doing' and 'feeling'. But I think part of this is perhaps that people don't necessarily expect the news media to provide these things. There are lots of other sources of entertainment online, for example, and they may or may not be looking for the news media to provide this." ⏯️ Listen to the episode across platforms including Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Full audio and transcript on our website: https://lnkd.in/eHKV7Zx3
Our podcast: Digital News Report 2024. Episode 3. What people want from news
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"Some in the White House press corps say they wish they had pushed harder to tell the story," around limitations related to President Biden's age, writes Hadas Gold, with some fearful it would give credence to bad faith criticisms. https://lnkd.in/eyKnjg53
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