Canadians Increasingly Losing Trust in Media, Study Finds

Only 29 percent of respondents indicated that the media is free from undue political influence, compared to 39 percent in 2017

A man reads a newspaper while sitting on a park bench in downtown Vancouver in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

A study on how people globally engage with the news found that Canadians are increasingly losing trust in the media.

A report released June 15 by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found that Canadians who place their trust in the news fell from 58 percent to 42 percent over the last four years.