The world’s largest digital news report
YouGov worked with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism to create the world’s largest ongoing survey tracking online news and engagement.
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The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism brings the depth and rigour from the highest levels of academia to address major issues within the world of news media. It is global in its perspective and in the content of its activities, with one of its biggest annual undertakings being the Digital News Report. For this report, The Institute required a research agency that could manage the expansion of markets covered whilst also meeting challenging timescales so as to publish current data in a fast-changing landscape.
Established in 2012, the Digital News Report continues to be the largest international comparative study to track online news and engagement across a range of markets. The Institute publishes all data, meaning that it’s widely accessed, ranging from academic institutions to media owners globally. YouGov have worked on the Digital News Report since its inception in 2012 and have worked closely with the Reuters Institute as the markets have expanded. We assume joint responsibility for ensuring that the data published is accurate and can be used as a reliable resource by multiple stakeholders and other users ranging from academic institutions to commercial media owners. This responsibility is not just to the UK, but to all markets that the Digital News Report covers.
In 2019 YouGov surveyed 75,000 respondents in 38 markets across 6 continents. Once fieldwork was 50% complete, the data for that market became available through our online data manipulation tool, Crunch, allowing markets to be compared with each other and potential stories to be identified at an early stage.
The most central requirement for the Digital News Report is to have a reliable sample across all 38 markets. The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism generously allows wide access to the data. This repeated access heightens the need for the data to be meaningful and stand up to interrogation.
In the first week, the Digital News Report made the headlines in 900+ articles globally and received over 4,600 downloads.
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Client Testimonial
“YouGov has been an outstanding partner for our Digital News Report, the largest ongoing international study of news and media use across the world. Working with YouGov, we have been able to build up the Digital News Report to a critically important must-read source of accurate and timely analysis of trends in a fast-changing media environment.”
- Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
About the brand
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is dedicated to exploring the future of journalism worldwide through debate, engagement, and research. The Digital News Report focuses on the issues of trust and misinformation, new online business models, the impact of changing Facebook algorithms and the rise of new platforms and messaging apps.