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It is based on strong principles.

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2025 5:02 am
by Shishirgano9
The UK news market has changed dramatically over the past decade, following the arrival of the smartphone in 2007. First, there has been a drastic drop in the distribution of national daily newspapers, from 11.5 million copies in 2008 to 5.8 million in 2018.



The local press is the one that has been hit the hardest, with the number of daily newspapers falling from 1,303 to 982 between 2007 and 2017.

On the other hand, we are seeing the emergence belgium mobile database of pure players with the arrival of players like Buzzfeed or Huffpost. Never has information been so accessible to citizens, even if it is the traditional media brands that benefit the most.

" For example, BBC News is read by 30 million readers every week ," notes Frances Cairncorss, the author of the report.

This market transformation has profoundly impacted the way readers access information. Now, they mainly go through intermediary platforms, such as Google News, Apple News or Facebook. This method of accessing information has several consequences on the reader's receptivity.

We speak in particular of "disaggregation of information" to the extent that access is done article by article. The reader no longer has access to a panorama of information as in a paper newspaper. Readers decide alone on the content they consume.
Information of public interest is the least likely to emerge on platforms. The algorithms of these platforms do not select the relevance of content, but reward the content that is shared the most. An obvious lack of transparency is also observed here.