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CTOnews.com, June 14 (Xinhua) according to the annual digital news report released by the Reuters Institute of Journalism yesterday, the number of people around the world who get news through traditional media sites or App has fallen by 10 percent since 2018, and young people prefer to get news through social media, search or mobile aggregation apps.

▲ image source Pixabay reports that users pay more attention to celebrities, big Vs and online celebrities than journalists on platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. TikTok is the fastest-growing social networking platform in the report, with 20 percent of 18-to 24-year-olds using TikTok to get news, up 5 percent from last year.

In addition, 48% of respondents said they were interested in news, down from 63% in 2017. The report is based on an online survey of 94000 adults in 46 countries and regions, including the United States.

Less than 1/3 of respondents said they like the system to push information based on their browsing history, down 6 percentage points from the 2016 survey. But people still prefer this way of letting algorithms choose news than editors or journalists.

The survey also showed that people's trust in news fell by 2 percentage points last year. Overall, 40% said they were willing to believe the news most of the time. Americans' trust in news has risen by 6 percentage points to 32%, but it is still the lowest in the world.

"there is no good reason to expect young people born in the 2000s to suddenly prefer old-fashioned websites, let alone radio and printing," Nielsen, director of the Reuters Institute of Journalism, said in the report. this is only because they (these forms of media) are getting older. "

CTOnews.com has previously reported that with the rise of social media, the living space of traditional news media is increasingly squeezed. To this end, countries and regions including the European Union, Switzerland, Canada and other countries and regions are developing or have issued relevant laws and regulations requiring large Internet platforms to pay original authors, mainly traditional media journalists, for the news content they quote.

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