Professor Robert Picard and Nic Newman on study showing more people buying news online

Robert Picard and Nic Newman have both featured in various media recently relating to a new Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism study that suggests more people might be prepared to pay for online news than they were a year ago.

The data indicate, on average, 10% of people have paid for news in some digital form - about one-third higher than last year, Robert said in a piece for BBC News (20 June). Public-affairs magazines are finding it easier to get the public to pay than newspapers, especially on tablets, because digital payments for magazines are becoming the norm and they offer news analysis and commentary in ways general news sources do not.

More has been written on this in The Times, The Financial Times, Le Monde and the Guardian (all on 20 June), as well as MSN India (24 June), the Oxford Mail (25 June), the Oxford Times (27 June) and theEconomist (27 July).

Nic has also written a blog article for Journalism.co.uk on how news is becoming more social, more real-time and more mobile.

Nic Newman is Visiting Research Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.