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Digital News Report 2020

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DOI: 10.60625/risj-048n-ap07

The Digital News Report is the world's most comprehensive study on news industry trends and audience behaviour. The 2020 report covers 40 markets across Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. It draws on findings from a worldwide survey of more than 80,000 digital news users. The report includes a special focus on a number of key issues including climate change, paying for news, the impact of coronavirus, pressures on local news and email newsletters.

Error notice (18 June 2020). An earlier version of the report incorrectly stated that the brand trust figures included all that have not heard of each brand in the ’Neither’ bar. However, those that had not heard of each brand were excluded. We have edited the labels to correctly describe the data, but the figures themselves are unchanged. We apologise for the error.

Meet the authors

Nic Newman

Nic Newman is a journalist and digital strategist who played a key role in shaping the BBC's internet services over more than a decade. He was a founding member of the BBC News Website, leading international coverage as World Editor (1997-2001). As... Read more about Nic Newman

Dr Richard Fletcher

Richard Fletcher is our Director of Research. He is primarily interested in global trends in digital news consumption, comparative media research, the use of social media by journalists and news organizations, and more broadly, the relationship between... Read more about Dr Richard Fletcher

Dr Anne Schulz

Anne Schulz is a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She works on the Digital News Project and is a researcher on the Digital News Report. She uses survey data to study news consumption across countries.... Read more about Dr Anne Schulz

Dr Simge Andı

Dr Simge Andı is a Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science at the University of Exeter. Before taking that job, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute, working on the Digital News Project.  Before coming to... Read more about Dr Simge Andı

Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is a Professor at the Department of Communication of the University of Copenhagen and a Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Before leaving Oxford in 2024, he worked at the Institute,... Read more about Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen