Threats abound in the future of news

What is the future of news and why should you care? Because it’s about more than newspaper sales and the decline of print media — it’s about democracy, writes Joyce Fegan

According to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report of 2018, 27% of Irish people are now considered “digitalists”, meaning that they consume their news online. This is an increase of four percentage points from 2017. In comparison with “traditionalists” — those who get their news from newspapers — that figure also stood at 27% in 2018, but it was a drop of 4pp from 31% on the year previous.