News and Media Research Centre
University of Canberra
Building 9, Level C, Room 10
14/06/2023 |
News
Digital News Report Australia 2023
TikTok and Instagram increase in popularity for news consumption, but Australians don't trust algorithms
14 June 2023: Australians are shifting their news consumption habits 鈥� with women less interested in news than men, and young people moving to social media to get their news 鈥� a report from the News and Media Research Centre (N&MRC) at the University of Canberra has revealed.
The Digital News Report (DNR): Australia 2023 was released today, showing that Australia鈥檚 previously high interest in news has fallen to 53 per cent 鈥� among women, that figure has hit a record low of 43 per cent.
The report 鈥� released this morning via a webinar 鈥� is part of a global research project involving 46 countries, co-ordinated by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.
Results were produced following an online survey with a sample size of 2,025 Australians; the sample is reflective of the population demographic that has access to the Internet.
