: The cost of courage: What lower levels of trust in independent digital news outlets actually reflect #IndiaNEWS Journalist Maria Ressa and her whole team at the Philippines-based digital publication

The cost of courage: What lower levels of trust in independent digital news outlets actually reflect #IndiaNEWS
Journalist Maria Ressa and her whole team at the Philippines-based digital publication Rappler are held in high esteem by journalists across the world for their courageous reporting. The importance of their work was recognised when Ressa, along with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. Yet, when we in our research collect data for the Reuters Institute Digital News Report on the trust in individual news organisations, Rappler does not rank particularly high compared to other Philippine brands and a significant minority of Filipinos do not trust the news organisation. Why is that?Rappler is respected by many journalists for its investigative reporting, considered a digital trailblazer and relied upon for its debunking of misinformation and much more.How can a news organisation such as Rappler be trusted by just 46% of our respondents in the Philippines and why might 32% say they do not trust it, when many brands that some journalists might see as less impressive do better? I think of it as the cost of courage, and it reflects a pattern we see across many of the countries covered in the annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report, including India, where digital news sites such as The News Minute, The Quint, The Wire (and indeed Scroll.in) do work that has much in common with that of...Read more

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