Super interesting post and just to add a thought re the pie chart. In our surveys at the Reuters institute for the study of journalism, we've been breaking sources down by a) mainstream media, b) alternative media outlets (which have grown considerably due to internet and lower cost production- much of this is professional but some partisan political, substack , professional newsletters and sources), c) personalities (who talk about news in podcasts or social feeds - these include scientists, politicians, comedians), d) ordinary people (who create and share news via social media) - we've been trying to size the importance of each of these in different contexts (e.g Covid coverage or Climate coverage) - people who use social media more tend to access more sources from c and d and are less exposed to journalists, mainstream sources
we published quite a bit around COVID and we're looking at climate change later this year. We used similar groupings when asking about attention around news in different social networks which was v revealing https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/yLnsb/3/
As always, an interesting read. For India -!: for me, the pie chart would be inverse: with professionally produced news being a smaller part of our diet and non-news news being a larger part. The distinction of “professionally produced” is important here because I don’t include many TV channels in that category.
I remember you writing about something like this! Very interesting but also makes sense to me. Would love to brainstorm around guiding norms for production/consumption in the everything else category if you are up for it
Super interesting post and just to add a thought re the pie chart. In our surveys at the Reuters institute for the study of journalism, we've been breaking sources down by a) mainstream media, b) alternative media outlets (which have grown considerably due to internet and lower cost production- much of this is professional but some partisan political, substack , professional newsletters and sources), c) personalities (who talk about news in podcasts or social feeds - these include scientists, politicians, comedians), d) ordinary people (who create and share news via social media) - we've been trying to size the importance of each of these in different contexts (e.g Covid coverage or Climate coverage) - people who use social media more tend to access more sources from c and d and are less exposed to journalists, mainstream sources
very interesting, thank you for sharing! -- do you already have any numbers on the sizes of these breakdowns?
we published quite a bit around COVID and we're looking at climate change later this year. We used similar groupings when asking about attention around news in different social networks which was v revealing https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/yLnsb/3/
thanks for sharing!
As always, an interesting read. For India -!: for me, the pie chart would be inverse: with professionally produced news being a smaller part of our diet and non-news news being a larger part. The distinction of “professionally produced” is important here because I don’t include many TV channels in that category.
I remember you writing about something like this! Very interesting but also makes sense to me. Would love to brainstorm around guiding norms for production/consumption in the everything else category if you are up for it
this is such a great place to start. i always love reading your work and getting to peek inside your brain. keep up the great work!
Thank you Joe!