Study: Media Trust in Germany Remains Stable

In Germany, trust in the established media remains largely stable. This is the result of the current Mainz Long-Term Study on Media Trust, conducted by researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. According to the study, 47 percent of citizens trust the established media when it comes to important issues, while 20 percent distrust them. At the same time, the perception of brutalized debates h…

The trust of Germans in the media remains largely stable in 2024 compared to the previous year, says a long-term study on the media confidence of researchers from the University of Mainz and Düsseldorf, which publishes the journal "Media Perspektiven". According to this report, 47% of the more than 1,200 respondents say that they trust the established media "more" or "perfect" when it comes to really important things. In the previous year it was…