Abstract
The fourteenth Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford explores changing news consumption in 48 media markets, based on a YouGov survey of over 97,000 online news consumers. The report documents how an accelerating shift towards news consumption via social media and video platforms is further diminishing the influence of traditional news organisations and supercharging a fragmented alternative media environment containing an array of podcasters, YouTubers, and TikTokers. At the same time, chatbots powered by generative AI are emerging as a new way to access information, especially with people under 35 – raising concerns about a potential loss of search referral traffic to publisher websites and apps. Despite this, audiences remain mostly sceptical about news they find in both social and AI platforms, partly driven by concerns about access to reliable content. Against this background trust in news remains stable for the third consecutive year.
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