World News Day aims to highlight the role of news providers in investigating and explaining important events.
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More than 1,000 news providers around the world have signed up to support World News Day on Monday, which aims to promote the role of journalism at a time when organisers say the industry faces an “existential threat”
Participating media organisations, including the New York Times, Reuters and the Kyiv Independent, are sharing editorials, ads and cartoons to highlight the value of “trusted journalism”
Trust in news dropped to a new low globally in 2026, according to the Reuters Institute’s latest Digital News Report, which noted that people are increasingly turning to social media and AI chatbots for news
Branko Brkic, co-organiser of World News Day, said media organisations that were once rivals must work together, adding: “If we do not change the game, we are just not going to exist.”
Declining trust in news
World News Day has grown since it began in 2018, and its message that “trusted journalism matters” aims to highlight the role of news providers in investigating and explaining important events
It comes against a backdrop of what the recent Reuters Institute report described as “anxiety, disengagement, and cynicism” towards news among the public, “but also openness to new sources and formats, and continued belief in what news at its best can offer”
Social media and video networks overtook news organisations’ own websites and apps as the main source of online news last year, but are trusted less, the report said
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Source: BBC News English
