Overview
This year’s report comes at a time of deep political and economic uncertainty, changing geo-political alliances, not to mention climate breakdown and continuing destructive conflicts around the world.
Against that background, evidence-based and analytical journalism should be thriving, with newspapers flying off shelves, broadcast media and web traffic booming. But we find traditional news media struggling to connect with much of the public, with declining engagement, low trust, and stagnating digital subscriptions. | Start reading
Watch our USA launch
We recently held our USA launch event in New York, hosted by Reuters.
A presentation by Diretor of Research Richard Fletcher was followed by a panel discussion hosted by report co-author Rasmus Nielsen, with Sally Buzbee of Reuters, Kevin Ponniah of BBC News and Carolyn Ryan of the New York Times.
How the public checks information it thinks might be wrong
By Rasmus Nielsen
How local publishers can provide value to audiences
By Richard Fletcher
How audiences think about news personalisation in the age of AI
By Amy Ross Arguedas
The changing landscape of news podcasts
By Craig T. Robertson
Walking the notification tightrope: How to engage audiences while avoiding overload
By Nic Newman
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Europe
Africa
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Highlights from countries
Brazil. Only 10% say they access news on print, down from 50% in 2013 and similar to podcasts (10%) and AI chatbots (9%).
Hungary and Greece (both 22%) are the countries with the lowest trust in news in our sample.
Thailand (49%), Malaysia (48%) and Kenya (40%) are the countries with the highest levels of TikTok news use.
Bulgaria (63%), Croatia (61%) and other Eastern European countries show the highest levels of news avoidance.
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A piece by Marina Adami and Gretel Kahn on the report's launch, featuring Jane Barrett from Reuters, David Rhodes from Sky News and Basia Cummings from the Observer.
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