The Reuters Institute recently released its 2021 Digital News Report, covering 46 markets that account for more than half of the world’s population. The report looked at many of the key post COVID-19 outcomes for the journalistic society – trust in the news, consumption of news, whether viewers and readers felt represented, whether they found news organisations unbiased and who they were turning to, when in doubt.
Mitali Mukherjee spoke with Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, director of Reuters Institute and professor of political communication, University of Oxford, to analyse what Indian viewers and readers are now turning to while accessing the news and whether fake news was now an acknowledged danger amongst the general public.