The Digital News Report 2022 released this week by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University shows that interest and trust in the news is declining almost everywhere. Interest has fallen from 63 percent in 2017 to 51 percent in 2022, and just over four out of every 10 people trust most of the news most of the time. Nearly 38 percent of the news consumers are also selectively avoiding news, especially about politics and the Covid pandemic, up from 29 percent in 2017.
