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The Reuters Institute’s latest Digital News Report paints a stark picture of the global media landscape, highlighting shrinking engagement with traditional news outlets, rising political polarization and the rapid ascent of social platforms and influencers as primary conduits for information.
Released amid global instability ranging from realignments in geopolitics to climate-driven disasters and ongoing wars, the report argues that evidence-based journalism should be flourishing. Instead, news organizations in many countries continue to lose audiences, face declining trust and struggle to grow digital subscriptions.