Lisbon, June 17, 2025 (Lusa) - One fifth of Portuguese people (21%) have already received some form of media literacy training, a figure that is below Finland but above the global average, according to the Digital News Report Portugal 2025 (DNRPT25) released on Tuesday.
According to the report, this figure, although close to the global average, remains below “the levels observed in Scandinavian countries such as Finland (34%)”.
Literacy training “is more prevalent among young people (41% in the 18–24 age group) and among those with higher education (32%), with some representation among the less educated (26%)”.
The DNRPT25 has been produced annually by OberCom - Observatório da Comunicação since 2015, published alongside the global report by RISJ - Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom.
This is the 10th annual report of the Digital News Report Portugal.
"News literacy training is associated with more active information behaviours: individuals with this type of training show greater interest in news (60% compared to 50% of the general public), a greater propensity to pay for online news (26% compared to 10%) and a stronger tendency to access media websites directly (24% compared to 19%),” the study says.
With regard to fact-checking practices, “those trained in media literacy resort more frequently to official sources (46%), trusted brands (44%) and fact-checkers (28%), demonstrating greater diversification in the use of sources and proactivity in confirming the veracity of information”.
However, “these individuals also participate more actively in the information ecosystem”, with 86% saying they are involved “in some way in daily news (reading, commenting, sharing or discussing news), compared to 74% of the general public”.
Despite this, “indicators such as trust in the news, concern about disinformation and motivations to avoid news do not show significant differences between those with and without media literacy training, suggesting that literacy has a greater impact on concrete behaviours than on subjective perceptions of the information environment,” the report concludes.
With fieldwork carried out by YouGov, the project surveyed around 97,000 Internet users in 48 countries worldwide in 2025. This year, Serbia joins the group of global markets under study, following the inclusion of Morocco in 2024.
The fieldwork took place between January 13, 2025 and February 24, 2025.
In Portugal, 2,012 individuals were surveyed.
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