Audience engagement features affect the perceived value of a news outlet only slightly, Isabelle Krebs and Juliane A. Lischka, both of University of Zurich, write. The authors surveyed 313 Swiss university students over their online news consumption behaviour. Engagement -meaning commenting, sharing, poll-taking and so forth- had little to no effect on the news outlets’ … Continued

People who generally distrust the news media are more likely to get their news from non-mainstream sources, Richard Fletcher, of University of Oxford, and Sora Park, of University of Canberra, write. The results are based on survey data from over 20 000 people from 11 countries, originally collected for the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report. … Continued

The audience has many different reasons to click on an article – or to avoid clicking it, Tim Groot Kormelink and Irene Costera Meijer, both of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, write. 56 Dutch were asked to browse online news as they normally would, and explain to interviewers their decisions to either click or not to click … Continued