Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism examined how news is consumed globally along demographic and geographical lines.
YouGov conducted an online survey of 94,940 people in 47 countries from January – February 2024.
Key findings include:
1.) There were minimal partisan differences regarding whether respondents trusted news sources.
–45% of respondents who identified on the right said they “trust the news most of the time.”
–43% of respondents on the left said the same.
2.) 47% of high-income respondents said “they trust the news most of the time” compared with 36% of low-income respondents.
3.) The three biggest factors respondents said influenced their trust in different news outlets include:
–Transparency about how news is made (72%)
–High Journalistic standards (69%)
–Representative of “people like me” fairly (65%)
See the original study here.
