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THEJOURNAL.IE IS THE second most-read online news outlet in Ireland, according to an authoritative new study.
The nine-year-old news website is second only to RTÉ News Online when it comes to where people got their news online in the past week, the Reuters Institute Digital News Report for 2019 has found.
Independent.ie, Breaking News.ie and Irish Times Online round out the top five.
32% of 2,013 respondents said they had used TheJournal.ie to access news online in the last week, compared to 33% for RTÉ News Online, 27% for Independent.ie, 22% for BreakingNews.ie and 18% for Irish Times Online.
The report notes that any changes compared to last year’s research are likely to be within the margin of error, meaning that there has not been any significant shift in reader habits when it comes to the publications they read.
The report found a number of trends in how people get their news online in Ireland, including generally high consumption of news and high levels of trust of the media among respondents, but a deep suspicion of news on social media and concern about the threat of false news.
When it comes to traditional sources for news, RTÉ’s tv news remains the most popular source by a wide margin at 36%, followed by RTÉ radio news (21%), Sky News (18%), BBC News (15%) and any local radio news (14%).
The study found that people in Ireland trust the news more than people in other EU countries do, and more than half (59%) say the media is doing a good job in helping them understand the news.
Among the other findings of the report were:
The research also found that Ireland’s podcast consumption remains higher than other countries; 37% of Irish respondents say they listened to a podcast in the last month, compared to the EU average of 33%.
The main reason people gave for listening to podcasts was to learn something, followed by to keep updated or informed about a topic.
Despite Ireland’s low level of disinformation and political polarisation compared to other countries, Irish people are concerned about false news on the internet – 57% expressed concern about it, compared to the EU average of 51%.
The research, which is funded in Ireland by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, was carried out using an online questionnaire at the end of January/beginning of February 2019 and the sample size in Ireland was 2,013 people, weighted to control for age, gender, region, newspaper readership, internet access and social grade.
The annual report carried out by the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford is the largest ongoing study of news consumption trends in the world, covering 38 countries.
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Surely we should at least be checking stomachs to see if plastic is an issue?
@brian boru: All died from plastic at the same time? Not likely.
@brian boru:
Oh, plastic is the current buzzword, it must be plastic so!,
Its more than likely sonar. Sonar is used in oil exploration and during military exercises.
Not really a mystery when you see the amount of such activity in our Atlantic waters.
@brian boru: Probably full of condoms as they look like small jellyfish as well, go to any beach here and its full of them…
@TamuMassif2019: they must be full of seamen too so ;-)
We will act when no whales can be found in our seas.
@Winterfell: I’ve swam in Dollymount for 35 years and never saw a whale. The old dead whale hoax.
@Winterfell: What will Norway and Japan do then, kill dolphins?
@Paul Whitehead: not exactly the Atlantic is it
Until today, I was ignorant of how destructive active sonar is to marine life.
I was just reading that sonar on some American ships is way more powerful than the minimum needed to kill a human in the water. It stands to reason it can’t be good for whales/dolphins which are biologically designed to pick up sonar.
The government and the MSM have missed a trick here. Surely they could have pointed to Climate Change being the cause. Another reason to slap carbon taxes on all of us.
The Great Climate Change Shakedown missed an opportunity here….
Russian naval activity in the Atlantic. Destroyers passed through the English Channel yesterday on the way to the Atlantic. Bet there’s subs there too. I wonder are the Irish navy keeping an eye on things or playing Irish ferries in the med?
@Phil Keenan: It was a British ship.
@Phil Keenan: far more non russian than Russian. Those clickbait articles in the Sun are only there to incite anti russian hatred before the next government anouncement blaming them for something.
Like it was said earlier, the exploration activity off the coast is clearly a more likely explanation
Also, it could be deep sea fishing vessels coming into Irish waters to catch our fish. The whales are also being netted. Fishing vessels dump the unwanted catch back into sea. Read something about this happening in the north west Irish deep sea.
@Ashling Visser Bishop: absolutely. Also the sonar they use for catch location is probably as powerful as military grade.
“Whales are designed for dealing with pressure changes” who’s designing these whales I demand to know.
sounds fishy
Another one spotted in the water close to sligo today. Will be on the shore in a few hours.
What are US and UK subs doing in our waters, why is this not asked, a few months ago a trawler got into difficulties as it seemed with a sub in the Irish sea but that wasn’t reported anywhere.
Those military children and their war games and UK’s Trident using the XP Windows operating system, it is crazy.
It has been stated for years that the sonar is causing this but the military don’t care, it’s time they did.
Also… “We take our environmental responsibilities very seriously and continue to work with the relevant UK authorities to reduce any environmental risk.
A necessary series of safety checks is observed and an environmental risk assessment is carried out before any underwater task is undertaken by the Ministry Of Defence, to minimise any potential risk to marine life.”
And again I ask what are they doing in and near Irish waters???
Saw one floating off Murder Hole Beach in Donegal on Sunday. Same colour as the ones above.
@Gavin Sheehan: Murder Hole Beach. What a fantastic place name!
There is absolutely no evidence of any kind provided here that naval sonar is the cause of these deaths.
Grace O Malley, pirate queer sorry what am l saying pirate queen……..she has not gone away yiz know…watch the sky
Saying there’s no evidence, instead of actually denying involvement in this, is like saying “you can’t prove it, so F off”.
Marine research vessel discovered coral reefs 300 miles off our west coast recently. How did they achieve that. SONAR maybe???
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