2025 Trust in Journalism survey
The 2025 AUT Trust in Journalism Survey has just been released. Key aspects are:
- Only 32% (-21% from 2020) of NZers trust most of the news most of the time
- Trust in news in NZ at 32% is equal to the US at 32% and below Uk 36%, Canada 39% and Australia 40%.
- People on the left mostly trust Radio NZ, TVNZ and mistrust NewstalkZB
- People on the right mostly trust NewstalkZB and mistrust RNZ, TVNZ, Stuff and Newsroom
- The NZ Herald is fairly neutral trusted and distrusted by both right and left
- Labour and Green voters most trust the news
- National, ACT and especially NZ First voters most distrust the news
There is of course a reasons centre-right voters distrust the news. That is because so much of the NZ media is biased against centre-right views. Many accept the viewpoint of the left as automatically correct, because that is where their personal views lie.