Digital News Report Portugal 2025

The Digital News Report Portugal is an annual publication produced by OberCom – Observatório da Comunicação since 2015. It focuses on understanding how Portuguese internet users engage with news content, news brands, and journalism. Portugal is one of several countries whose research teams produce a national report published alongside the global Digital News Report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ), University of Oxford.

The insights, interpretations, and conclusions presented here refer specifically to the Portuguese context. However, international and global comparisons are made to situate and contextualise how Portuguese audiences engage with news content. 

For a more comprehensive understanding of news consumption in Portugal, readers are encouraged to consult the full series of Digital News Report Portugal editions (available at the OberCom website ) and, for a deeper understanding of the global outlook, the Digital News Report series published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. The global report provides comparative perspectives and international trends, while this national edition offers an in-depth analysis of all findings relating to Portugal. In the 2025 edition, the global survey reached more than 97.000 internet users across 48 countries. Fieldwork took place between 13 January and 24 February 2025. In Portugal, around 2000 internet users were surveyed.

OberCom works closely with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in suggesting potential topics and themes to be covered each year, assuring the quality of the national questionnaire, and in the analysis and interpretation of the Portuguese data. This year’s report offers a detailed examination of the results for Portugal and benefits from ten years of accumulated data since 2015. This long-term dataset enables the identification of specific national trends and their comparison with broader international developments.