Digital News Report 2025. Episode 6: How people navigate local news and information

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:

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Digital News Report 2025. Episode 6: How people navigate local news and information is an episode from Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism by Oxford University.

This episode is 15:00 long.

This episode was published on Jul 16, 2025.

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