For a number of years, public trust in the media has been declining, with misinformation being of growing political concern. Yet it would appear that the pandemic has halted this shift, as people show they’re not willing to give up the idea of an objective, reliable press.

Google is making original reporting rank higher than follow-up content based in its Search results. As people in the post-truth era are starting to see journalistic integrity as a rarity, they’re placing greater value on transparency in the media and what they perceive as 'high-quality’ publications.

The surge in screen-time sparked by COVID-19 has left some people mentally and emotionally fatigued. Yet online habits don’t have to be defined by ‘doomscrolling’ and unrealistic social feeds. How can ‘digital gardens’ facilitate a calmer and more cooperative way to interact on the web?

Why are people swapping mindless binge-watching for intentional narratives? What’s fuelling the rising demand to see more nuanced diversity on-screen? How are fan-creator relationships getting more intimate? And what are people’s expectations of live events in the ‘new normal’?