Women and news: an overview of audience behaviour in 11 countries

Report

This report analyses how women around the world consume and perceive news, based on data on audience behaviour from 11 countries featured in the 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News Report: Kenya, South Africa, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and United States. Key Findings are: men are more likely than women to say that they are ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ interested in political news across all markets; women are more likely than men to express high levels of interest in news about health and education; women are more likely than men to report that they use TV news programmes or bulletins; Facebook is still an important source of news for both men and women, but YouTube and Twitter are more popular with men; women will talk about news face to face with friends and family more than men. They are less likely to comment on news on news websites or on social media; but women’s levels of trust in news, and concern over ‘fake news’ online, are broadly similar to men.

Authors: Selva, M; Andi, S

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
• Place of publication: Oxford
• Publication date: 2020-12-21
• DOI: 10.60625/risj-4awr-kr35
• ISBN: 9781907384868
• Language: English
• Keywords: news; social media; COVID-19; women; #MeToo; feminism