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Reuters Institute Digital News Report

Reuters Institute Digital News Report

How the population or – respectively - various groups within it, is altering its consumption of news and what role the various technical platforms and news services play in that process, are central questions posed in the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey, which the Oxford-based Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has been conducted annually since 2012.

The international and the German report 2023 are published in London on 14 June 2023. LINKS FOLLOW SOON
  • Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023 – Ergebnisse für Deutschland [Findings for Germany] (Working Paper of the HBI, No. 67; pdf)
  • Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023 (Report for all countries in Englisch)
  • Press Release "News Fatigue in Germany on the Rise" of 14 June 2023

The 2023 study was conducted simultaneously in the following countries under the coordination of the Oxford (UK) based Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism: Argentina1, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil1, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile1, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece1, Hong Kong, Hungary, India1, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya1, Malaysia1, Mexico[1], Netherlands, Nigeria1, Norway, Peru, Philippines1, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa1, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey1, United Kingdom and the United States. This was done to identify general trends as well as national characteristics.

[1]     Limited representativeness of the sample.

About 2,000 people were surveyed per country in 2023. The eleventh repetition of the study is based on the answers of 93,895 respondents from 46 countries on six continents. The fieldwork was carried out by the polling institute YouGov in January 2023.
 
Since 2013, the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut has been the collaborating partner responsible for the German contribution. In 2023, the survey was funded by the State Media Authorities and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF).

The findings of each year for Germany are documented in the series “Working Papers of the HBI” (as PDF available for download).
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Project Description

The current media landscape, along with traditional media, is shaped by a number of stationary and mobile devices which enable users to access information anywhere at any given time. The available content and formats are as diverse as the providers themselves. Since 2012, the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey has analysed the effects of these developments on the information-oriented media use of society. The following questions are paramount: What is the significance of individual end devices, providers and news formats? How is news searched for and found? Is the willingness to pay for news online changing?

 
Since 2012, the Reuters Institute Digital News Survey has been analysing general trends and national particularities in news usage by means of representative surveys in 38 countries. What types of news are of interest? What equipment and methods are used to find it? What providers are trusted and what are people's views on financing journalism?
 
As in previous years, the survey in Germany in 2019 was supported by the state media authorities and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF).

Findings from Previous Years

2022

The international and the German report 2022 were published in London on 15 June 2022. 2021

The international and the German report 2021 were published in London on 23 June 2021.

2020

The international as well as the German Report 2020 were published on 16 June 2020. 

The surveys in Germany were conducted between 17 and 30 January 2020 by the survey institute YouGov prior to the COVID19 pandemic. In a separate study, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism conducted a supplementary survey on specific news usage under COVID-19 conditions. The findings of this survey are presented in several parts of the German report.

2019

The international as well as the German Report 20191 were published on 12 June 2019 in London and Athens. 
On the occasion of the publication of a special analysis by the Reuters Institute, a controversy broke out in September 2019 over the alleged statement that the political centre no longer looks "heute [today]" and "Tagesschau." This was published by the magazine ÜBERMEDIEN on 18 September 2019 under the title "Linke Programme für ein linkes Publikum? Was die Reuters-Studie wirklich zeigt" [Left-Wing Programmes for a Left-Wing Audience? What the Reuters Study Really Shows"].
 
Also in the magazine ÜBERMEDIEN the article  "So links ist das Publikum von „Tagesschau“ und „heute“ wirklich" ["That's How Left-Wing the Audience of "Tagesschau" and "heute" Really Is"] was published on 26 November 2019. It is based on a statement that Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Dr. Sascha Hölig, the authors of the German part of the study, had made with regard to "die Rolle öffentlich-rechtlicher Nachrichten beim Nachrichtenpublikum" [The Role of Public News Regarding the News Audience] (pdf) on 21 October 2019.

2018

The international as well as the German report of 2018 was published on 14 June 2018 in London, New York and Berlin.

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Project Information

Overview

Duration: 2013-2024

Research programme:
RP1 - Transformation of Public Communication

Third party

die medienanstalten; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

Cooperation Partner

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Nic Newman, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Contact person

Dr. Sascha Hölig
Senior Researcher Media Use

Dr. Sascha Hölig

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