Richard Fletcher

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that those who use public service media for online news are less likely to pay for/express a willingness to pay because they have a reference price of zero for Online news, while those who pay for print newspapers are more likely to be willing to pay online news because they had a price above zero for offline news.

TL;DR: The Reuters Institute's Digital News Report is the world's largest comparative international survey of news consumption habits as mentioned in this paper, which reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a YouGov survey of over 50,000 online news consumers in 26 countries including the US and UK.

TL;DR: For instance, a recent study from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism examines the underlying reasons for trust and distrust in the news media and in social media across nine countries as mentioned in this paper, and argues that this is largely a function of a model that allows anybody to publish without checks and algorithms that sometimes favor extreme or contentious content.

TL;DR: Using search engines for news is associated with more diverse and more balanced news consumption, as search drives what the authors call “automated serendipity” and leads people to sources they would not have used otherwise.

TL;DR: It is found that users are far more likely to correctly attribute a story to a news brand if they accessed it directly rather than via search or social.