Overcoming indifference: what attitudes towards news tell us about building trust
The third report from the Trust in News Project develops a more detailed understanding of how different segments of the public hold varying degrees of trust in news. It is based on new survey data from Brazil, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- Read a summary in Spanish and in Portuguese
- Read the previous instalments from the project: What we think we know (and what we don't know) about trust in news | Listening to what trust in news means to audiences
- Learn more about the project here
- Listen to a podcast episode on the project here
- Explore our research here
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Lessons from Brazil on how to better cover the environment and the climate crisis
Explore the Digital News Report 2021
This year's report offers new insights about digital news consumption and reveals how COVID-19 has transformed the news industry around the world. It is based on a YouGov survey of more than 92,000 online news consumers in 46 markets, including India, Indonesia, Thailand, Nigeria, Colombia and Peru for the first time.
- Read the executive summary
- Download a PDF version
- Explore every new country: India | Indonesia | Thailand | Nigeria | Colombia | Peru
- Watch our video summary
- Explore the report in 192 slides
- Watch our global launch events
- Listen to a podcast episode on the report: Spotify | Apple | Google
Perceptions of fairness in news coverage
By Richard Fletcher
Impartiality unpacked: a study of four countries
By Craig T. Robertson
Local news unbundled: where audience value still lies
By Anne Schulz
How do people think about the financing of the commercial news media?
By Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Nielsen
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Listening to what trust in news means to users: qualitative evidence from 4 countries
How do people view journalism? And what can that tell us about why they do (and do not) trust the news they encounter These are the questions at the heart of this report, based on conversations with 132 individuals from Brazil, India, the UK and the US.
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- Read a translated executive summary: in Spanish | in Portuguese
- Read the report on trust in news we published last December here
- Learn more about the Trust in News Project
- Listen to a podcast episode on the project here
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