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Our Digital News Report 2023 is out today!

📊 46 markets
🌏 93,000+ respondents
📷 Cross-national analysis from @nicnewman @richrdfletcher @kirstenaeddy Craig T. Robertson @rasmus_kleis & our partners

📱Explore now digitalnewsreport.org/2023
🧵 Findings in thread #DNR23 Card with the name of the a...
Here are 3 headlines:

👎Fewer people are using Facebook for news, with Twitter usage relatively stable in most countries
📱TikTok is gaining even more ground among young audiences
💰The economic downturn is putting further pressure on business models
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…
Facebook is becoming much less important as a source of news

👎 Just 28% say they accessed news via Facebook in 2023 compared with 42% in 2016. News usage for Twitter has remained relatively stable, with usage of Mastodon very low. Evolution for each platform in the chart below A line graph showing the pr...
TikTok is the fastest growing social network in our survey

💃 Across our global sample, it is now used by 44% of 18–24s for any purpose (and by 20% for news)
🌏 TikTok is most heavily used in the Global South, where it is used by many across ages. Figures by age & country below A bar graph showing TikTok ...
The report finds that growth in payment for online news has stalled in many markets

💸 39% of news subscribers across more than 20 countries say they have cancelled/renegotiated subscriptions
❌Around half of non-subscribers in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪say that nothing would convince them to pay A line graph showing the pr...
We've been tracking the % paying for online news for almost a decade in rich, newspaper-centric countries

💰Across 20 countries, the % has remained at 17% – raising questions about whether we may have reached a peak for current offers. Check out figures by market below A bar graph showing the pro...
The report finds declining interest in news in a large number of countries

📍 The decline is especially striking in Spain (34 points since 2015), UK (27) and France (23)
📍Interest is lower amongst women and younger people, with the falls often greatest in polarised countries Different line graphs showi...
36% in our sample avoid the news sometimes/often, 7 points more than in 2017 but 2 lower than in 2022

🙈 News avoiders are interested in positive stories (55%), solutions (46%) and explainers (39%). Only 35% are interested in the big stories of the day (62% of non-avoiders are) A bar graph showing what ki...
Trust in the news has fallen across markets by a further 2 points in the last year, reversing in many countries the gains made in the pandemic

📊On average, 40% say they trust most news most of the time. 🇫🇮 has the highest levels of trust (69%) while 🇬🇷 (19%), the lowest A collection of bar graphs ...
News podcasting continues to resonate with younger audiences, but is still a minority activity

📊 34% access a podcast monthly, based on a group of 20 countries, but only 12% access a news show. Despite the growing amount of news podcasts, this % has remained stable since 2018 A line graph showing the pr...
Fewer people are participating in online news than in the recent past

📊Across markets, only 22% are now active participators, with around half (47%) not participating at all.
🙊In 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸 the proportion of active participators has fallen by more than 10 points since 2016 A bar chart showing the pro...
📌 These are just a few highlights from #DNR23. We encourage you to explore it in full. Here are a few key links:

📄 Download PDF here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/…

🌏 Explore data from every country reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…

📱 Explore the report online
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…
📊 Check out our interactive reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…

👩🏾‍💻 Explore the report in hundreds of slides reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…

🧑‍🔬 Read our methodology reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…

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