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DATE: August 5, 2026 at 12:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Democrats and Republicans show different reactions to unfavorable news
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-partisans-change-their-news-habits-when-the-headlines-look-bad/
People actively alter how much and what kind of news they read depending on whether the day’s headlines are favorable or unfavorable to their preferred political party. New research published in the American Journal of Political Science demonstrates that news consumption is highly dynamic, with both Democrats and Republicans shifting their browsing habits in response to negative coverage. These shifts can include avoiding hard news, ending a reading session early, or retreating to ideologically aligned outlets.
In the modern media environment, people face an overwhelming amount of information and almost limitless choices about what to read. Researchers have studied how this abundance affects political knowledge, often focusing on two broad behaviors. The first is selective exposure, where individuals seek out news outlets that confirm their existing political beliefs. The second is news avoidance, a behavior where people disengage from current events entirely, often due to feelings of anxiety or information overload. Both behaviors carry implications for a functioning society, as avoiding the news entirely can lead to lower levels of civic engagement and public knowledge.
These behaviors are frequently treated as stable traits, categorizing people as either constant news avoiders or loyal consumers of partisan media. But human behavior is rarely so static. People might feel motivated to read the news during major political events but choose to tune out when the headlines become upsetting or challenge their worldview. When people encounter information that contradicts their core values, they experience a form of psychological discomfort known as cognitive dissonance. To restore mental balance, an individual might actively avoid the source of that discomfort or seek out information that reassures them.
A team of researchers led by Michael Heseltine, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, investigated whether news consumption fluctuates based on immediate political developments. Heseltine, along with political scientists Hennes Barnehl at the University of California San Diego and Magdalena Wojcieszak at the University of California Davis, proposed a concept they call partisan temporal selective avoidance.
They hypothesized that people dynamically adjust their news habits to avoid cognitive dissonance based on whether the current news cycle reflects poorly on their own political party or their opponents. The researchers wanted to know if partisans completely stop reading the news, switch to entertainment stories, or retreat to friendly news outlets when their party faces a scandal.
To test this idea, the researchers analyzed the online browsing histories in a large study of 2,462 adult internet users in the United States over a nine-month period in 2019. The dataset included more than 27 million individual web visits, which the researchers filtered using a comprehensive list of over 5,000 national and local news domains. The researchers used machine learning tools to categorize the visited news articles. They distinguished between hard news, which covers politics and economics, and soft news, which covers topics like local crime, sports, and entertainment.
To accurately assess the political tone of millions of articles, the researchers built two automated text classifiers. They trained these machine learning models using thousands of social media posts from mainstream news organizations like The Associated Press and Reuters. Human coders manually labeled a subset of these posts to teach the software how to identify negative sentiment toward Republican or Democratic politicians. Once trained, the software scanned the titles of the articles in the participants’ browsing histories to determine the political tone of each visit.
The research team evaluated the data on two levels. First, they conducted a macro-level analysis to see how the overall daily news environment affected reading habits. They assigned a daily sentiment score based on whether the dominant news stories of the day were negative toward Democrats or Republicans. By averaging the sentiment of major news coverage over a rolling three-day period, the researchers created a snapshot of the general political climate. Then, they compared these daily scores to the actual browsing behaviors of the study participants.
On this daily level, the researchers found that partisans reacted to unfavorable news cycles in different ways. When the daily news environment was negative toward their own party, Democrats did not decrease their overall news consumption. Instead, they reduced their consumption of hard news, pivoting toward soft news topics. When the news was negative toward Republicans, Democrats consumed more news articles overall.
Republicans exhibited a different pattern in response to the daily news cycle. When the news was negative toward their own party, Republicans slightly increased their overall news consumption. However, this increase was primarily driven by a shift toward ideologically aligned, conservative news outlets. When the daily news cycle was negative toward Democrats, Republicans did not make statistically significant changes to their news consumption.
The researchers also conducted a micro-level analysis to see what happens within an individual browsing session after a person reads a specific article. They tracked users sequentially to measure the immediate effect of reading a negative political story. This allowed the team to see if encountering an unfavorable headline prompted users to abandon the news entirely or seek out different types of content in real time.
At this granular level, reading a negative article about one’s own party reduced the length of the remaining news browsing session. For both Democrats and Republicans, encountering a story that cast their preferred party in a negative light made them more likely to stop reading the news shortly afterward. If Democrats were browsing a mainstream or non-aligned outlet and encountered an unfavorable article, they were slightly more likely to switch to a left-leaning outlet for the remainder of their session. Republicans also exhibited an increase in reading negative news about their own party after an initial exposure, though this often occurred on ideologically aligned platforms.
Encountering negative news about the opposing party also shaped subsequent behavior. For Democrats, reading an article negative toward Republicans slightly decreased the length of their overall reading session. Yet for both groups, exposure to a negative story about the opposition prompted them to seek out a higher proportion of hard news and additional negative news stories before they closed their browsers. This suggests that reading bad news about a political rival can be highly engaging, motivating partisans to dive deeper into political coverage.
The study relies on browsing data from 2019, a period dominated by the first impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. During this time, the overall news environment was consistently more negative toward Republicans than Democrats. The differences in how Democrats and Republicans adjusted their reading habits might reflect the specific political dynamics of that year rather than permanent psychological differences between the two groups. Future research will need to examine whether these specific partisan differences persist under different political administrations.
The findings are based solely on desktop and laptop web browsing. This data collection method misses news consumed via smartphones, television broadcasts, print media, and radio. As a result, the study captures only a portion of the participants’ total media diets. The research also focuses entirely on the two-party political system of the United States. It remains unknown how people in countries with multiparty systems adjust their news consumption when faced with unfavorable coverage of their preferred political groups.
The study, “Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data,” was authored by Michael Heseltine, Hennes Barnehl, and Magdalena Wojcieszak.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-partisans-change-their-news-habits-when-the-headlines-look-bad/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #PartisanTemporalSelectiveAvoidance #NewsConsumption #SelectiveExposure #NewsAvoidance #CognitiveDissonance #PoliticalNewsBehavior #Democrats #Republicans #MediaConsumption #PoliticalPsychology
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DATE: August 5, 2026 at 12:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Democrats and Republicans show different reactions to unfavorable news
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-partisans-change-their-news-habits-when-the-headlines-look-bad/
People actively alter how much and what kind of news they read depending on whether the day’s headlines are favorable or unfavorable to their preferred political party. New research published in the American Journal of Political Science demonstrates that news consumption is highly dynamic, with both Democrats and Republicans shifting their browsing habits in response to negative coverage. These shifts can include avoiding hard news, ending a reading session early, or retreating to ideologically aligned outlets.
In the modern media environment, people face an overwhelming amount of information and almost limitless choices about what to read. Researchers have studied how this abundance affects political knowledge, often focusing on two broad behaviors. The first is selective exposure, where individuals seek out news outlets that confirm their existing political beliefs. The second is news avoidance, a behavior where people disengage from current events entirely, often due to feelings of anxiety or information overload. Both behaviors carry implications for a functioning society, as avoiding the news entirely can lead to lower levels of civic engagement and public knowledge.
These behaviors are frequently treated as stable traits, categorizing people as either constant news avoiders or loyal consumers of partisan media. But human behavior is rarely so static. People might feel motivated to read the news during major political events but choose to tune out when the headlines become upsetting or challenge their worldview. When people encounter information that contradicts their core values, they experience a form of psychological discomfort known as cognitive dissonance. To restore mental balance, an individual might actively avoid the source of that discomfort or seek out information that reassures them.
A team of researchers led by Michael Heseltine, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, investigated whether news consumption fluctuates based on immediate political developments. Heseltine, along with political scientists Hennes Barnehl at the University of California San Diego and Magdalena Wojcieszak at the University of California Davis, proposed a concept they call partisan temporal selective avoidance.
They hypothesized that people dynamically adjust their news habits to avoid cognitive dissonance based on whether the current news cycle reflects poorly on their own political party or their opponents. The researchers wanted to know if partisans completely stop reading the news, switch to entertainment stories, or retreat to friendly news outlets when their party faces a scandal.
To test this idea, the researchers analyzed the online browsing histories in a large study of 2,462 adult internet users in the United States over a nine-month period in 2019. The dataset included more than 27 million individual web visits, which the researchers filtered using a comprehensive list of over 5,000 national and local news domains. The researchers used machine learning tools to categorize the visited news articles. They distinguished between hard news, which covers politics and economics, and soft news, which covers topics like local crime, sports, and entertainment.
To accurately assess the political tone of millions of articles, the researchers built two automated text classifiers. They trained these machine learning models using thousands of social media posts from mainstream news organizations like The Associated Press and Reuters. Human coders manually labeled a subset of these posts to teach the software how to identify negative sentiment toward Republican or Democratic politicians. Once trained, the software scanned the titles of the articles in the participants’ browsing histories to determine the political tone of each visit.
The research team evaluated the data on two levels. First, they conducted a macro-level analysis to see how the overall daily news environment affected reading habits. They assigned a daily sentiment score based on whether the dominant news stories of the day were negative toward Democrats or Republicans. By averaging the sentiment of major news coverage over a rolling three-day period, the researchers created a snapshot of the general political climate. Then, they compared these daily scores to the actual browsing behaviors of the study participants.
On this daily level, the researchers found that partisans reacted to unfavorable news cycles in different ways. When the daily news environment was negative toward their own party, Democrats did not decrease their overall news consumption. Instead, they reduced their consumption of hard news, pivoting toward soft news topics. When the news was negative toward Republicans, Democrats consumed more news articles overall.
Republicans exhibited a different pattern in response to the daily news cycle. When the news was negative toward their own party, Republicans slightly increased their overall news consumption. However, this increase was primarily driven by a shift toward ideologically aligned, conservative news outlets. When the daily news cycle was negative toward Democrats, Republicans did not make statistically significant changes to their news consumption.
The researchers also conducted a micro-level analysis to see what happens within an individual browsing session after a person reads a specific article. They tracked users sequentially to measure the immediate effect of reading a negative political story. This allowed the team to see if encountering an unfavorable headline prompted users to abandon the news entirely or seek out different types of content in real time.
At this granular level, reading a negative article about one’s own party reduced the length of the remaining news browsing session. For both Democrats and Republicans, encountering a story that cast their preferred party in a negative light made them more likely to stop reading the news shortly afterward. If Democrats were browsing a mainstream or non-aligned outlet and encountered an unfavorable article, they were slightly more likely to switch to a left-leaning outlet for the remainder of their session. Republicans also exhibited an increase in reading negative news about their own party after an initial exposure, though this often occurred on ideologically aligned platforms.
Encountering negative news about the opposing party also shaped subsequent behavior. For Democrats, reading an article negative toward Republicans slightly decreased the length of their overall reading session. Yet for both groups, exposure to a negative story about the opposition prompted them to seek out a higher proportion of hard news and additional negative news stories before they closed their browsers. This suggests that reading bad news about a political rival can be highly engaging, motivating partisans to dive deeper into political coverage.
The study relies on browsing data from 2019, a period dominated by the first impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. During this time, the overall news environment was consistently more negative toward Republicans than Democrats. The differences in how Democrats and Republicans adjusted their reading habits might reflect the specific political dynamics of that year rather than permanent psychological differences between the two groups. Future research will need to examine whether these specific partisan differences persist under different political administrations.
The findings are based solely on desktop and laptop web browsing. This data collection method misses news consumed via smartphones, television broadcasts, print media, and radio. As a result, the study captures only a portion of the participants’ total media diets. The research also focuses entirely on the two-party political system of the United States. It remains unknown how people in countries with multiparty systems adjust their news consumption when faced with unfavorable coverage of their preferred political groups.
The study, “Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data,” was authored by Michael Heseltine, Hennes Barnehl, and Magdalena Wojcieszak.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-partisans-change-their-news-habits-when-the-headlines-look-bad/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #PartisanTemporalSelectiveAvoidance #NewsConsumption #SelectiveExposure #NewsAvoidance #CognitiveDissonance #PoliticalNewsBehavior #Democrats #Republicans #MediaConsumption #PoliticalPsychology
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DATE: August 5, 2026 at 12:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Democrats and Republicans show different reactions to unfavorable news
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-partisans-change-their-news-habits-when-the-headlines-look-bad/
People actively alter how much and what kind of news they read depending on whether the day’s headlines are favorable or unfavorable to their preferred political party. New research published in the American Journal of Political Science demonstrates that news consumption is highly dynamic, with both Democrats and Republicans shifting their browsing habits in response to negative coverage. These shifts can include avoiding hard news, ending a reading session early, or retreating to ideologically aligned outlets.
In the modern media environment, people face an overwhelming amount of information and almost limitless choices about what to read. Researchers have studied how this abundance affects political knowledge, often focusing on two broad behaviors. The first is selective exposure, where individuals seek out news outlets that confirm their existing political beliefs. The second is news avoidance, a behavior where people disengage from current events entirely, often due to feelings of anxiety or information overload. Both behaviors carry implications for a functioning society, as avoiding the news entirely can lead to lower levels of civic engagement and public knowledge.
These behaviors are frequently treated as stable traits, categorizing people as either constant news avoiders or loyal consumers of partisan media. But human behavior is rarely so static. People might feel motivated to read the news during major political events but choose to tune out when the headlines become upsetting or challenge their worldview. When people encounter information that contradicts their core values, they experience a form of psychological discomfort known as cognitive dissonance. To restore mental balance, an individual might actively avoid the source of that discomfort or seek out information that reassures them.
A team of researchers led by Michael Heseltine, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, investigated whether news consumption fluctuates based on immediate political developments. Heseltine, along with political scientists Hennes Barnehl at the University of California San Diego and Magdalena Wojcieszak at the University of California Davis, proposed a concept they call partisan temporal selective avoidance.
They hypothesized that people dynamically adjust their news habits to avoid cognitive dissonance based on whether the current news cycle reflects poorly on their own political party or their opponents. The researchers wanted to know if partisans completely stop reading the news, switch to entertainment stories, or retreat to friendly news outlets when their party faces a scandal.
To test this idea, the researchers analyzed the online browsing histories in a large study of 2,462 adult internet users in the United States over a nine-month period in 2019. The dataset included more than 27 million individual web visits, which the researchers filtered using a comprehensive list of over 5,000 national and local news domains. The researchers used machine learning tools to categorize the visited news articles. They distinguished between hard news, which covers politics and economics, and soft news, which covers topics like local crime, sports, and entertainment.
To accurately assess the political tone of millions of articles, the researchers built two automated text classifiers. They trained these machine learning models using thousands of social media posts from mainstream news organizations like The Associated Press and Reuters. Human coders manually labeled a subset of these posts to teach the software how to identify negative sentiment toward Republican or Democratic politicians. Once trained, the software scanned the titles of the articles in the participants’ browsing histories to determine the political tone of each visit.
The research team evaluated the data on two levels. First, they conducted a macro-level analysis to see how the overall daily news environment affected reading habits. They assigned a daily sentiment score based on whether the dominant news stories of the day were negative toward Democrats or Republicans. By averaging the sentiment of major news coverage over a rolling three-day period, the researchers created a snapshot of the general political climate. Then, they compared these daily scores to the actual browsing behaviors of the study participants.
On this daily level, the researchers found that partisans reacted to unfavorable news cycles in different ways. When the daily news environment was negative toward their own party, Democrats did not decrease their overall news consumption. Instead, they reduced their consumption of hard news, pivoting toward soft news topics. When the news was negative toward Republicans, Democrats consumed more news articles overall.
Republicans exhibited a different pattern in response to the daily news cycle. When the news was negative toward their own party, Republicans slightly increased their overall news consumption. However, this increase was primarily driven by a shift toward ideologically aligned, conservative news outlets. When the daily news cycle was negative toward Democrats, Republicans did not make statistically significant changes to their news consumption.
The researchers also conducted a micro-level analysis to see what happens within an individual browsing session after a person reads a specific article. They tracked users sequentially to measure the immediate effect of reading a negative political story. This allowed the team to see if encountering an unfavorable headline prompted users to abandon the news entirely or seek out different types of content in real time.
At this granular level, reading a negative article about one’s own party reduced the length of the remaining news browsing session. For both Democrats and Republicans, encountering a story that cast their preferred party in a negative light made them more likely to stop reading the news shortly afterward. If Democrats were browsing a mainstream or non-aligned outlet and encountered an unfavorable article, they were slightly more likely to switch to a left-leaning outlet for the remainder of their session. Republicans also exhibited an increase in reading negative news about their own party after an initial exposure, though this often occurred on ideologically aligned platforms.
Encountering negative news about the opposing party also shaped subsequent behavior. For Democrats, reading an article negative toward Republicans slightly decreased the length of their overall reading session. Yet for both groups, exposure to a negative story about the opposition prompted them to seek out a higher proportion of hard news and additional negative news stories before they closed their browsers. This suggests that reading bad news about a political rival can be highly engaging, motivating partisans to dive deeper into political coverage.
The study relies on browsing data from 2019, a period dominated by the first impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. During this time, the overall news environment was consistently more negative toward Republicans than Democrats. The differences in how Democrats and Republicans adjusted their reading habits might reflect the specific political dynamics of that year rather than permanent psychological differences between the two groups. Future research will need to examine whether these specific partisan differences persist under different political administrations.
The findings are based solely on desktop and laptop web browsing. This data collection method misses news consumed via smartphones, television broadcasts, print media, and radio. As a result, the study captures only a portion of the participants’ total media diets. The research also focuses entirely on the two-party political system of the United States. It remains unknown how people in countries with multiparty systems adjust their news consumption when faced with unfavorable coverage of their preferred political groups.
The study, “Partisan temporal selective news avoidance: Evidence from online trace data,” was authored by Michael Heseltine, Hennes Barnehl, and Magdalena Wojcieszak.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-partisans-change-their-news-habits-when-the-headlines-look-bad/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #PartisanTemporalSelectiveAvoidance #NewsConsumption #SelectiveExposure #NewsAvoidance #CognitiveDissonance #PoliticalNewsBehavior #Democrats #Republicans #MediaConsumption #PoliticalPsychology
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CS Monitor: Why Greeks are going to TikTok for news instead of newspapers or TV. “Greeks don’t turn to traditional media for news; they go to TikTok, Instagram, and the like. That puts them at the forefront of how news consumption is trending globally – and makes them a lens on how the future of news might look.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/23/greece-why-greeks-are-going-to-tiktok-for-news-instead-of-newspapers-or-tv/ -
CS Monitor: Why Greeks are going to TikTok for news instead of newspapers or TV. “Greeks don’t turn to traditional media for news; they go to TikTok, Instagram, and the like. That puts them at the forefront of how news consumption is trending globally – and makes them a lens on how the future of news might look.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/23/greece-why-greeks-are-going-to-tiktok-for-news-instead-of-newspapers-or-tv/ -
CS Monitor: Why Greeks are going to TikTok for news instead of newspapers or TV. “Greeks don’t turn to traditional media for news; they go to TikTok, Instagram, and the like. That puts them at the forefront of how news consumption is trending globally – and makes them a lens on how the future of news might look.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/23/greece-why-greeks-are-going-to-tiktok-for-news-instead-of-newspapers-or-tv/ -
CS Monitor: Why Greeks are going to TikTok for news instead of newspapers or TV. “Greeks don’t turn to traditional media for news; they go to TikTok, Instagram, and the like. That puts them at the forefront of how news consumption is trending globally – and makes them a lens on how the future of news might look.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/23/greece-why-greeks-are-going-to-tiktok-for-news-instead-of-newspapers-or-tv/ -
CS Monitor: Why Greeks are going to TikTok for news instead of newspapers or TV. “Greeks don’t turn to traditional media for news; they go to TikTok, Instagram, and the like. That puts them at the forefront of how news consumption is trending globally – and makes them a lens on how the future of news might look.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/23/greece-why-greeks-are-going-to-tiktok-for-news-instead-of-newspapers-or-tv/ -
A new #study by the #MediaInsightProject reveals #generationaldifferences in #newsconsumption and trust. While #socialmedia dominates #teen #news use, older #adults rely on #television and #newspapers. The study also highlights the growing influence of #influencers and #creators, with 57% of Americans getting news from them, and the importance of #localnews. https://americanpressinstitute.org/comparing-news-consumption-trust-us-teens-and-adults/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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A new #study by the #MediaInsightProject reveals #generationaldifferences in #newsconsumption and trust. While #socialmedia dominates #teen #news use, older #adults rely on #television and #newspapers. The study also highlights the growing influence of #influencers and #creators, with 57% of Americans getting news from them, and the importance of #localnews. https://americanpressinstitute.org/comparing-news-consumption-trust-us-teens-and-adults/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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A new #study by the #MediaInsightProject reveals #generationaldifferences in #newsconsumption and trust. While #socialmedia dominates #teen #news use, older #adults rely on #television and #newspapers. The study also highlights the growing influence of #influencers and #creators, with 57% of Americans getting news from them, and the importance of #localnews. https://americanpressinstitute.org/comparing-news-consumption-trust-us-teens-and-adults/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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A new #study by the #MediaInsightProject reveals #generationaldifferences in #newsconsumption and trust. While #socialmedia dominates #teen #news use, older #adults rely on #television and #newspapers. The study also highlights the growing influence of #influencers and #creators, with 57% of Americans getting news from them, and the importance of #localnews. https://americanpressinstitute.org/comparing-news-consumption-trust-us-teens-and-adults/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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A new #study by the #MediaInsightProject reveals #generationaldifferences in #newsconsumption and trust. While #socialmedia dominates #teen #news use, older #adults rely on #television and #newspapers. The study also highlights the growing influence of #influencers and #creators, with 57% of Americans getting news from them, and the importance of #localnews. https://americanpressinstitute.org/comparing-news-consumption-trust-us-teens-and-adults/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understanding-young-news-audiences-time-rapid-change
#HackerNews #UnderstandingYoungNewsAudiences #YoungAudiences #MediaTrends #RapidChange #NewsConsumption
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Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understanding-young-news-audiences-time-rapid-change
#HackerNews #UnderstandingYoungNewsAudiences #YoungAudiences #MediaTrends #RapidChange #NewsConsumption
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Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understanding-young-news-audiences-time-rapid-change
#HackerNews #UnderstandingYoungNewsAudiences #YoungAudiences #MediaTrends #RapidChange #NewsConsumption
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Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understanding-young-news-audiences-time-rapid-change
#HackerNews #UnderstandingYoungNewsAudiences #YoungAudiences #MediaTrends #RapidChange #NewsConsumption
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Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understanding-young-news-audiences-time-rapid-change
#HackerNews #UnderstandingYoungNewsAudiences #YoungAudiences #MediaTrends #RapidChange #NewsConsumption
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NiemanLab: People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and “good enough,” new study finds. “Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). In India, that number jumps to nearly 20 percent.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/26/niemanlab-people-who-use-chatbots-for-news-consider-them-unbiased-and-good-enough-new-study-finds/ -
NiemanLab: People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and “good enough,” new study finds. “Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). In India, that number jumps to nearly 20 percent.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/26/niemanlab-people-who-use-chatbots-for-news-consider-them-unbiased-and-good-enough-new-study-finds/ -
NiemanLab: People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and “good enough,” new study finds. “Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). In India, that number jumps to nearly 20 percent.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/26/niemanlab-people-who-use-chatbots-for-news-consider-them-unbiased-and-good-enough-new-study-finds/ -
NiemanLab: People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and “good enough,” new study finds. “Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). In India, that number jumps to nearly 20 percent.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/26/niemanlab-people-who-use-chatbots-for-news-consider-them-unbiased-and-good-enough-new-study-finds/ -
NiemanLab: People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and “good enough,” new study finds. “Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). In India, that number jumps to nearly 20 percent.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/26/niemanlab-people-who-use-chatbots-for-news-consider-them-unbiased-and-good-enough-new-study-finds/ -
Bangkok Post – How to avoid stress from news overload
News headlines often focus on stressful and negative events – be it daily crime, politics, disasters or wars…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #Health #informationoverload #MentalHealth #MinistryofPublicHealth #newsconsumption #Stress #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/240293/ Bangkok Post – How to avoid stress from news overload #Éire #Health #IE #InformationOverload #Ireland #MentalHealth #MentalHealth #MinistryOfPublicHealth #News #NewsConsumption #Stress
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Clemson University: Is it possible to get your daily news in a smarter way? Clemson researchers are working on it– and you can help. “A team that includes Clemson University is inviting volunteers to sign up for a free daily newsletter that delivers a list of Associated Press news stories personally curated for each individual reader. The ad-free newsletter is helping researchers study […]
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Clemson University: Is it possible to get your daily news in a smarter way? Clemson researchers are working on it– and you can help. “A team that includes Clemson University is inviting volunteers to sign up for a free daily newsletter that delivers a list of Associated Press news stories personally curated for each individual reader. The ad-free newsletter is helping researchers study […]
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Clemson University: Is it possible to get your daily news in a smarter way? Clemson researchers are working on it– and you can help. “A team that includes Clemson University is inviting volunteers to sign up for a free daily newsletter that delivers a list of Associated Press news stories personally curated for each individual reader. The ad-free newsletter is helping researchers study […]
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Clemson University: Is it possible to get your daily news in a smarter way? Clemson researchers are working on it– and you can help. “A team that includes Clemson University is inviting volunteers to sign up for a free daily newsletter that delivers a list of Associated Press news stories personally curated for each individual reader. The ad-free newsletter is helping researchers study […]
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Clemson University: Is it possible to get your daily news in a smarter way? Clemson researchers are working on it– and you can help. “A team that includes Clemson University is inviting volunteers to sign up for a free daily newsletter that delivers a list of Associated Press news stories personally curated for each individual reader. The ad-free newsletter is helping researchers study […]
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NiemanLab: Journalists are souring on social media platforms, an analysis of 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions suggests. “While these predictions suggest that the journalistic community’s enthusiasm for social media platforms has waned over time, there has been no such change in the perceptions of the people actually using these platforms — the audience.”
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NiemanLab: Journalists are souring on social media platforms, an analysis of 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions suggests. “While these predictions suggest that the journalistic community’s enthusiasm for social media platforms has waned over time, there has been no such change in the perceptions of the people actually using these platforms — the audience.”
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NiemanLab: Journalists are souring on social media platforms, an analysis of 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions suggests. “While these predictions suggest that the journalistic community’s enthusiasm for social media platforms has waned over time, there has been no such change in the perceptions of the people actually using these platforms — the audience.”
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NiemanLab: Journalists are souring on social media platforms, an analysis of 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions suggests. “While these predictions suggest that the journalistic community’s enthusiasm for social media platforms has waned over time, there has been no such change in the perceptions of the people actually using these platforms — the audience.”
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NiemanLab: Journalists are souring on social media platforms, an analysis of 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions suggests. “While these predictions suggest that the journalistic community’s enthusiasm for social media platforms has waned over time, there has been no such change in the perceptions of the people actually using these platforms — the audience.”
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NiemanLab: News creators get more attention in countries where traditional media struggles. “Legacy news media has long competed for audience with social media sites, video platforms, and streaming services. But a newer competitor — news creators — is pulling and retaining audiences in countries where mainstream media is struggling to keep them.”
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NiemanLab: News creators get more attention in countries where traditional media struggles. “Legacy news media has long competed for audience with social media sites, video platforms, and streaming services. But a newer competitor — news creators — is pulling and retaining audiences in countries where mainstream media is struggling to keep them.”
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NiemanLab: News creators get more attention in countries where traditional media struggles. “Legacy news media has long competed for audience with social media sites, video platforms, and streaming services. But a newer competitor — news creators — is pulling and retaining audiences in countries where mainstream media is struggling to keep them.”
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NiemanLab: News creators get more attention in countries where traditional media struggles. “Legacy news media has long competed for audience with social media sites, video platforms, and streaming services. But a newer competitor — news creators — is pulling and retaining audiences in countries where mainstream media is struggling to keep them.”
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NiemanLab: News creators get more attention in countries where traditional media struggles. “Legacy news media has long competed for audience with social media sites, video platforms, and streaming services. But a newer competitor — news creators — is pulling and retaining audiences in countries where mainstream media is struggling to keep them.”
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Social media dominates news consumption in Indonesia as TikTok surges
#Indonesia #TikTok #SocialMedia #NewsConsumption #DigitalNews #MediaTrends #AIinNews #NewsTrust #News #NewsLiteracy #Journalism #MediaShift #OnlineNews
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Social media dominates news consumption in Indonesia as TikTok surges
#Indonesia #TikTok #SocialMedia #NewsConsumption #DigitalNews #MediaTrends #AIinNews #NewsTrust #News #NewsLiteracy #Journalism #MediaShift #OnlineNews
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Social media dominates news consumption in Indonesia as TikTok surges
#Indonesia #TikTok #SocialMedia #NewsConsumption #DigitalNews #MediaTrends #AIinNews #NewsTrust #News #NewsLiteracy #Journalism #MediaShift #OnlineNews
https://the-14.com/social-media-dominates-news-consumption-in-indonesia-as-tiktok-surges/ -
Social media dominates news consumption in Indonesia as TikTok surges
#Indonesia #TikTok #SocialMedia #NewsConsumption #DigitalNews #MediaTrends #AIinNews #NewsTrust #News #NewsLiteracy #Journalism #MediaShift #OnlineNews
https://the-14.com/social-media-dominates-news-consumption-in-indonesia-as-tiktok-surges/ -
Social media dominates news consumption in Indonesia as TikTok surges
#Indonesia #TikTok #SocialMedia #NewsConsumption #DigitalNews #MediaTrends #AIinNews #NewsTrust #News #NewsLiteracy #Journalism #MediaShift #OnlineNews
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PressGazette: Top UK online publishers: X plummets, Reddit surges, news publishers ranked. “X (formerly Twitter) saw the biggest audience drop among the 25 biggest website publishers in the UK between May 2024 and May 2025. The latest Ipsos iris data puts X Corp on a monthly UK user base of 20.6 million in May, down 12% compared to May 2024, making it the 24th biggest online publisher in the […]
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PressGazette: Top UK online publishers: X plummets, Reddit surges, news publishers ranked. “X (formerly Twitter) saw the biggest audience drop among the 25 biggest website publishers in the UK between May 2024 and May 2025. The latest Ipsos iris data puts X Corp on a monthly UK user base of 20.6 million in May, down 12% compared to May 2024, making it the 24th biggest online publisher in the […]
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PressGazette: Top UK online publishers: X plummets, Reddit surges, news publishers ranked. “X (formerly Twitter) saw the biggest audience drop among the 25 biggest website publishers in the UK between May 2024 and May 2025. The latest Ipsos iris data puts X Corp on a monthly UK user base of 20.6 million in May, down 12% compared to May 2024, making it the 24th biggest online publisher in the […]
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PressGazette: Top UK online publishers: X plummets, Reddit surges, news publishers ranked. “X (formerly Twitter) saw the biggest audience drop among the 25 biggest website publishers in the UK between May 2024 and May 2025. The latest Ipsos iris data puts X Corp on a monthly UK user base of 20.6 million in May, down 12% compared to May 2024, making it the 24th biggest online publisher in the […]
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PressGazette: Top UK online publishers: X plummets, Reddit surges, news publishers ranked. “X (formerly Twitter) saw the biggest audience drop among the 25 biggest website publishers in the UK between May 2024 and May 2025. The latest Ipsos iris data puts X Corp on a monthly UK user base of 20.6 million in May, down 12% compared to May 2024, making it the 24th biggest online publisher in the […]
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Search Engine Journal: Google Tests ‘Preferred Sources’ To Personalize Top Stories In Search. “Google is testing a new feature that allows you to customize the Top Stories section in search results by selecting preferred news sources. Currently available through Search Labs in the U.S. and India, the experiment gives people more influence over which publishers appear in their news-related […]
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Search Engine Journal: Google Tests ‘Preferred Sources’ To Personalize Top Stories In Search. “Google is testing a new feature that allows you to customize the Top Stories section in search results by selecting preferred news sources. Currently available through Search Labs in the U.S. and India, the experiment gives people more influence over which publishers appear in their news-related […]
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PsyPost: Believing “news will find me” is linked to sharing fake news, study finds. “While much attention has focused on malicious actors or bots, recent evidence suggests that much of the spread of fake news comes from ordinary users who may not realize they’re sharing false information. The researchers behind the new study focused on the role of passive news exposure, especially among […]
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PsyPost: Believing “news will find me” is linked to sharing fake news, study finds. “While much attention has focused on malicious actors or bots, recent evidence suggests that much of the spread of fake news comes from ordinary users who may not realize they’re sharing false information. The researchers behind the new study focused on the role of passive news exposure, especially among […]
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PsyPost: Believing “news will find me” is linked to sharing fake news, study finds. “While much attention has focused on malicious actors or bots, recent evidence suggests that much of the spread of fake news comes from ordinary users who may not realize they’re sharing false information. The researchers behind the new study focused on the role of passive news exposure, especially among […]