► AVAILABLE NOW: Digital News Report 2019

Spanish users take precautions from misinformation and demand more depth and vigilance from the media

Despite recent efforts by the media and technological companies to generate better public credibility, Spanish netizens' confidence in the news continues to fall. Only 43% of users routinely rely on information they receive, compared to 32% of whom are skeptical. The political and social tension from the past three years have contributed to the institutional discredit of the media in Spain; whose credibility collapsed eight points since 2017, from 51% to the current 43%. This is one of the main conclusions of the Spanish Digital News Report 2019 prepared by the Faculty of Communication of the University of Navarra. It was based on more than 2,000 conducted interviews with Spanish internet users during the months of January and February 2019. The study is part of the largest global media consumption research coordinated by the University of Oxford in 38 countries.

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@digitalunav takes part in the biggest european research project to date on digital and data journalism

A network in which @digitalunav takes part has won a €3.9 million Horizon 2020 grant to coordinate ‘JOLT: Harnessing Digital and Data Technologies for Journalism’. JOLT is a European Training Network funded by the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions to provide structured training and excellent supervision to a cluster of PhDs.

JOLT will hire 15 PhD researchers to develop new theoretical insights, technical advancements, and best-practice guidelines for digital and data journalism.

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Meet our visiting researchers in the forthcoming academic year, as well as those of the past year:

2019-2020

Isadora Ortiz de Camargo, Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, SP, Brasil)

2018-2019

Enrique Iturralde, University of Mexico

2017-2018

Amy Jo Coffey, University of Florida (USA)
Zafer Kiyan, Ankara University (Ankara, Turkey) 

2016-2017

Ester Appelgren, Södertörn University (Huddinge, Sweden)

Alexandre Lenzi, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil)

Pedro Sebastián Fierro Zamora, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Santiago, Chile)

Stefanie Carlan da Silveira, Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)

Israel Márquez, “Juan de la Cierva” Research Grant Program at Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain)
Maria João Lopes Antunes, Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal) 

2015-2016

Patrícia Dias Soares, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)
Edson Capoano, Mackenzie University and ESPM-SP (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 
Carmen Beatriz Fernández, DataStrategia Consultores (Caracas, Venezuela)
Teresa Nozal Cantarero, Universidade da Coruña (A Coruña, Spain)

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		Digital News Report 2019 (Spain), coordinated by Digital unav-Center for Internet Studies and Digital Life – University of Navarra			Digital News Report 2018 (Spain), coordinated by Digital unav-Center for Internet Studies and Digital Life – University of Navarra