Audience Engagement

News

Médias en Seine 2023: what we learnt at this annual French festival about the future of news

Speakers discussed media literacy, reaching young audiences, strategies for making newsrooms more diverse and building news products around archival footage.

(Very) young audiences: How a magazine uses comics to tell the news to French kids

TOPO uses graphic novel techniques to tackle complex issues for its teenage audience. It's reached 5,000 subscribers since its launch in 2016.

As social media turns away from the news, publishers try other channels

Editors from Spain, Ecuador and the US on their strategies in the light of Twitter and Facebook retreating from news.

Our podcast: Digital News Report 2023. Episode 6: The importance of public service media for individuals and for society

Richard Fletcher explains how much audiences value public service media and how this correlates with use of public service media and other news media

Our podcast: Digital News Report 2023. Episode 5: News podcasts: who is listening and what formats are working?

Nic Newman delves into findings around listening habits, types and benefits to publishers of news podcasts

Our podcast: Digital News Report 2023. Episode 4: Attitudes towards algorithms and their impact on news

Richard Fletcher explains findings on attitudes towards algorithmic news selection

Research

Depth and breadth: How news organisations navigate trade-offs around building trust in news

Fourth report from our Trust in News Project looks at the choices and challenges facing newsrooms seeking to build trust with various audiences

An ongoing infodemic

How people in eight countries access and rate news and information about Coronavirus a year into the pandemic.

Revising the Public Editor role could solve two of journalism’s biggest crises

Journalist Fellow Kathy English puts her journalistic imagination to the task in examining the role of public editor as a primary agent of journalistic accountability

Digital News Report 2017

Our annual survey of news consumption trends based on a survey of more than 70,000 online news users in 36 countries worldwide.

Digital News Report 2018

Our annual survey of news audience trends around the world based on a survey of online news users across 40 countries

How Polarized Are Online and Offline News Audiences? A Comparative Analysis of Twelve Countries