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Digital News Report 2020: 5 must-read charts for publishers — whatsnewinpublishing.com

On this week's episode of the podcast we argue that the real impact of coronavirus won't be felt until this time next year. That must have made life extremely difficult for the good people at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, whose Digital News Report 2020 tries to encompass both the business as usual of the start of the year and the absolute frenzy of the past few months.

Despite that challenge there are - as ever - valuable insights in there, and friend of Media Voices Damian Radcliffe has pulled out five key figures for us. You won't be blindsided by any of the trends in there (subs are up, podcasts are booming), but the actual progression of the trends can be a little shocking. The extent to which subscription numbers have grown is heartwarming - but it's countered by the utter collapse (and there is no other word) in trust in the media. You might need a snifter of something when you see quite how mistrusted a lot of journalists are...

'Just stop it': News execs Will Lewis and Lionel Barber condemn journalists' 'unbecoming' use of social media to share opinions — www.pressgazette.co.uk

Speaking of trust - Will Lewis, the former boss of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal, and ex-Financial Times editor Lionel Barber come out swinging against journalists expressing opinion on social media.

The problem is that that's not where that blurring is primarily occurring. Instead, it's increasingly happening within the pages of the newspapers themselves. If anything, journalists need to be more open, accountable and available about their points of view on social.

Instagram 'will overtake Twitter as a news source' — www.bbc.co.uk

Another interesting finding from the Digital News Report - Instagram doubled its news audience last year, and could overtake Twitter by 2021. That's an opportunity for publishers in terms of finding audiences - but it's bad in that journalists are most active on Twitter, that Instagram is a Facebook property, and that it comes with aaaall the issues of distributed publishing.

Why micropayments will never be a thing in journalism — www.cjr.org

We've discussed the problems with micropayments for news before. You need an easy, centralised system for payments and a critical mass of publishers using it - and James Ball expands on those points and more in this article for CJR. That said, we'd say 'never say never' when it comes to digital journalism...

This week's podcast

LA Times Audience Engagement Editor Adriana Lacy on using archival content to contextualise current events — voices.media

Adriana launched a dedicated Instagram account for the LA Times’ archival photos late last year, so we talked about where those images are sourced from, what the response has been, and how they’ve used historical images of protests to add context to the events of the past few weeks.