Reuters just released its fifth annual Digital News Report. Going through the report we’ve selected for you 4 surprising key findings.
Here are the details of the key findings:
The biggest change in the digital media landscape in the past 5 years is the growth of social media. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are now becoming key players in the distribution of news.
The stories that come through are usually the breaking stories that I would otherwise have to go to NewYorkTimes.com. Now I don’t
(35-54 year old, US Focus Group)
Social media and personalised news applications are changing the nature of story selection. Whether a story appears in an alert, a feed or aggregated homepage is decided by either an editor or an algorithm. The algorithms work on factors like: recency and popularity, what you’ve read before, and what your friends have been reading or sharing. Reuters asked its focus group based on which criteria the news should be selected for them.
With social media you are your own editor
(18-34 year old, UK Focus Group)
Despite all effort to grow video, people still prefer to read the news through articles.
The participants of the survey were also asked to name the reasons for not watching any news videos online.
Segmented by frequency of access and interest in news, three categories of news consumers emerge:
Read the full report here.
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