News sites are rapidly becoming the newspapers of the digital age. And, noted Nieman Lab recently, you know what happened to newspapers. The 2026 Digital News Report from Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) shows that almost all online news growth is coming from third-party sources, and publishers' own sites and apps are being left behind. "Social media and video networks are now more popular as a source of news than owned and operated online news websites and apps in 30 of our 48 markets," notes the report. But trust in news is at a record low since the Digital News Report began its surveys in 2015.

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