Publishers still haven’t learned how to best monetize online, journalists are getting more political, consumers think “fake news is rampant,” and social media is encroaching on the news, according to this year’s Digital News Report.
The report, from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the University of Oxford, surveyed over 80,000 online news consumers in 40 markets. Those behaviors were, in part, examined during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Here are some of the takeaways:
Publishers still struggle to monetize online news
Many readers do not want to pay for online news, a trend that puts a strain on publishers as advertisers struggle to find the best sites on which to place their messaging, given brand safety concerns.
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