Julia Stoll
Research expert covering TV and video media
Trust in media in Europe - statistics & facts
Instead of what used to be journalists, newspapers, TV and radio stations, nowadays there are hundreds of thousands of news sources available. In these times of media abundance, "fake news" and "lying press", overall trust in the media has recently been a subject of intense scrutiny. According to a survey conducted in 2015 by the European Commission, only 19 percent of European respondents had high trust in the media. A similar questionnaire found that the country with the most trust in the news was Finland. 62 percent of respondents stated they trusted news organizations and journalists. In terms of gender distribution, women considered news more credible than men did.
