I once had a professor in media effects theory who would incorporate the full read of the “Digital News Report” into the curriculum of all his classes. It is a roughly 150-page long report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism disclosing the findings of an annual, international study on news consumption.

The content of the report illustrated a 150 billion dollar industry in great change; Emerging new actors and technologies, changing audience behavior, and fluctuating levels of trust and support in legacy news channels. …