Chart of the week: Poor journalism more prevalent than actual fake news?
According to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018, 54 per cent of global news consumers are very or extremely concerned about what is real and what is fake on the internet when it comes to news and only 44 per cent of the more than 70,000 respondents think that most news is trustworthy.
However, it may not be what is often referred to as “fake news”, i.e. completely fabricated stories spread for commercial or political reasons, that hurts trust in the news media the most. According to Reuters’ findings, poor journalism, e.g. factual mistakes, dumbed down stories or clickbait, are the most commonly perceived form of misinformation. Forty-two per cent of all respondents reported having been exposed to examples of poor journalism in the past week, while only 26 per cent had come across stories completely made up for political or commercial gain.
Download the chart here.
Chart by Statista
More like this
Chart of the week: Subscriptions lead digital content spending
Chart of the week: Podcast listeners are young, educated and affluent
Chart of the week: Not just search and social, how readers find articles
Chart of the week: Americans’ trust in media recovers from historic low
