Richard Fletcher

TL;DR: The incidentally exposed users use significantly more online news sources than non-users, and the effect of incidental exposure is stronger for younger people and those with low interest in news and stronger for users of YouTube and Twitter than for Users of Facebook.

TL;DR: This paper found that public concern about misinformation is making some people more careful about the brands they choose and the content they share online and that changing behaviour is most apparent with those that are younger and better educated, rather than older or less privileged groups.

TL;DR: The authors explored the impact of individual trust in the news media on source preferences and online news participation behavior, in particular sharing and commenting, across 11 countries, and found that those with low levels of trust tend to prefer non-mainstream news sources like social media, blogs, and digital-born providers.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed news audiences across media platforms (print, television, and online) in 6 countries, going beyond platform-specific, single-country studies, and found surprisingly high levels of news audience duplication, but also that cross-platform audiences vary from country to country, with fragmentation higher in Denmark and United Kingdom than in Spain and the United States.

TL;DR: A YouGov survey of over 70,000 online news consumers in 36 countries including the US and UK revealed new insights about digital news consumption, including the issues of trust in the era of fake news, changing business models and the role of platforms.