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Here we briefly examine the current trend within the public when it comes to their consumption and trust of media content. With online media taking the lead, confusion and mistrust are at an all-time high, but this doesn't negate some vital opportunities that are on the rise when it comes to consumption of content/audience size as well as expectations and demands.

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A brief discussion on the new demands on journalism as both its audience share, especially in the context of online media, increases and loses trust in the accuracy of fact reporting.

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While most research is indicating a steady trend of decline when it comes to public trust in the news media, there's certainly a silver lining of opportunities within the profession, some as a potential direct result of said decline in trust.

Research does provide contraindications and paradoxical findings; while people are ever-more sceptical and mistrusting of media, they are also consuming online forms of media - the most contentious and mistrusted form of media - at record levels (Grosser, 2016). This paradox doesn't just stop there as survey data and other research indicate a want from the public for journalists to both research and catch out false information within their own paradigm (Kuntze, 2020).

This can all be distilled down to the basic point that ...

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