Digital News Report 2025. Episode 6: How people navigate local news and information
From Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism by Oxford University
July 16, 2025 · 15 min
About this episode
This episode explores how people access local news and information and the preferences between news media and platforms.
In this episode of Future of Journalism we look at people access news and information about topics in their local area. In this episode of Future of Journalism we look at the levels at which people access news and information about topics in their local area and whether they prefer to use news media or platforms to do so. We explore how this correlates with interest in news in general and how these trends vary around the world. We also discuss how news publishers can better engage audiences on a local level. Speakers: Richard Fletcher is a co-author of the Digital News Report and is the Director of Research at the Reuters Institute. Host Mitali Mukherjee is the Director of the Reuters Institute and is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism. Find a full transcript on our website: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-podcast-digital-news-report-2025-episode-6-how-people-navigate-local-news-and-information
People in this episode
Host: Mitali Mukherjee
Guest: Richard Fletcher
Topics covered
- local news
- information access
- news media
- audience engagement
- global trends
Keywords
- local news
- information access
- news media
- audience engagement
- Digital News Report
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University
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