The Information website closed the week by announcing cuts to Google News, the search giant’s journalism division. The New York Times expanded on the information, proclaiming, “Silicon Valley is giving up on news.”
“Even Google the strongest partner of the last decade has become less secure,” the image above said, pointing to the cuts and that “publishers say traffic coming from Google has declined in recent weeks. “
He added that two other platforms, Facebook and “The major platforms are moving away from news,” he concludes.
Social media traffic has dropped by almost half in two years, impacting the NYT itself, but the fear is directed at Google. “Several publishers are privately discussing what the future of postGoogle traffic will look like,” says the most important American newspaper.
RECORD
At the end of the week, a new poll was released in the United States showing that “the media’s assessment is the bleakest in Gallup’s history,” according to the institute itself.
When asked about the level of trust in the mass media, “a record 39% answered ‘none at all’.” Another 29% of Americans said “not very much,” 25% said “quite a bit,” and 7% said “a lot.”