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Austrian news is increasing: ORF leads with 63%!
Trust in Austrian news increases to 40.6% according to Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025, published on June 17th.
Austrian news is increasing: ORF leads with 63%!
Trust in news is approaching old heights again in Austria. The current Digital News Report 2025 shows that trust in news in Austria has risen to 40.6 percent and thus exceeds the global average of 40.4 percent. This increase comes to 34.9 percent in 2024 in 2021 after a dramatic decline in the trust of 46.3 percent.
For the ORF, 63 percent of those surveyed stated that this broadcaster's news. The daily newspapers "Standard" and "Press" follow with values of 60 and 59 percent. In contrast, the tabloids such as the "Kronen Zeitung" have only 34 percent trust, "today" has 39 percent and "OE24" to 43 percent. This distrust is also reflected in media use, in which 39.3 percent of those surveyed state to avoid messages.
news behavior of the Austrians
- TV news: 29.7%
- Social media: 14.8%
- Radion news: 14.1%
- Print arrangements: 10%
- online offers: 11.3%
An alarming trend can be observed: the weekly print range has halved since 2015, from 71 percent to only 35 percent in 2025. However, news podcasts have gained in popularity, with 11 percent that use this form of news weekly, especially among young, highly educated people.
The role of AI in journalism
A new trend is also evident in the willingness to pay for news. This rose from 13.7 percent in 2024 to 22 percent in 2025. In addition, the use of AI generated messages has also become more important. 17.8 percent of those surveyed feel comfortable when they consume such messages, while 50.9 percent continue to feel uncomfortable. The Reuter Institute Digital News Report
In Germany, trust in news is even 45 percent of the adult online population. There most prefer publicly law news as well as local and regional newspapers. In addition to the increase in AI-supported news sources, the respondents also have general skepticism about AI-based information. Over 50 percent of those surveyed go to the search for human-produced messages, which makes the need to always check the results of AI applications. Despite their usefulness in the research, as from the report of the mdr , also contain errors and often tempt you to "hallucinations", in which incorrect information is combined.
The studies show that despite the new technologies such as AI, trust in reliable and well -researched human news remains high. The surveys have been carried out annually as part of the "Digital News Report" of the Reuter Institute and demonstrate a clear trend in media use and trust in news at an international level.