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All in all, people feel pretty good about their own capacity to keep informed. Majorities everywhere except the U.S. feel positive about their ability to keep informed; in the U.S. that falls to 40% while about half feel neutral. When asked about four potential challenges they might face, knowing who or what to trust ranks highest across all four countries. That challenge conflicts with their greatest priorities: getting news quickly, seeing different sources, being able to go more or less in depth and getting news from professional journalists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is worth considering these findings alongside the 2024 Digital News Report<\/a>, which found that across 47 countries, people\u2019s top three concerns in deciding which outlets to trust are whether they are transparent about how the news is made, have high journalistic standards and \u201crepresent people like me fairly\u201d \u2014 with strikingly little variation by age, gender or political orientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
People feel good about their ability to stay informed \u2014 except in the U.S.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nIn three of the four countries, a majority of people generally feel positive about their ability to keep informed. That falls to 40% in the U.S. where the plurality (51%) say they feel neutral. Still, Americans are about five times as likely to be positive than negative. Australians stand out for a different reason. Even as a majority (59%) feel positive, about a third (34%) feel negative, far more than in any other country, where that sentiment is expressed by just 8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n