The Reuters Institute India digital news report
Zeenab Aneez, Taberez Ahmed Neyazi, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023
This report is a snapshot of the development of news consumption habits in India and how the rise of mobile media, social media platforms, and messaging applications is in the process of changing how Indians access news and engage with it. It is a pilot study that deals exclusively with English-language news users with internet access, a small, but important, subset of a larger, more diverse, and very complex Indian media market. Our findings show that this subset of users are embracing a mobile-first, platform-dominated media environment with search engines, social media, and messaging applications playing an absolutely key role in how people access and use news in an setting characterised by low trust in many news media, high concerns over the possible implications of expressing political views, and widespread worries about different kinds of disinformation.