{"podcast":{"title":"Learning English from the News","slug":"learning-english-from-the-news-1026559","podcast_index_feed_id":1026559,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p05hw4bq.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05hw4bq","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0hvw5fz.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":386,"summary":"Learn the language you need to understand news stories in English. Every week we talk about one big news story and the vocabulary in the headlines that will help you understand it. And in our special Our World in English episodes, we share documentaries from around the world and across the BBC in simple English. Find more at bbclearningenglish.com Follow us at bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T04:21:22.639525+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/learning-english-from-the-news-1026559"},"episode":{"title":"Do people trust the news?","slug":"do-people-trust-the-news","published_at":"2026-07-22T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/learning-english-from-the-news-1026559/do-people-trust-the-news","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/learning-english-from-the-news-1026559","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ny263n","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss-low/proto/http/vpid/p0ny20jf.mp3","summary":"Trust in news around the world is the lowest it's ever been since annual reports began in 2015. The 2026 Digital News Report, published by the Reuters Institute suggests that public trust in the news it at 27%, three points down from last year. For the first time, social media and video networks are, on average, more popular than both TV and news websites and apps as sources of news. The use of AI chatbots for news is also growing quickly. Learn English from the headlines about this new study. Test what you've learnt with a free worksheet about this episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-from-the-news_2026/260722 Subscribe to our newsletter to get weekly tips and updates: https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599","meta_description":"Trust in news around the world is the lowest it's ever been since annual reports began in 2015. The 2026 Digital News Report, published by the Reuters Ins…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":503,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/learning-english-from-the-news-1026559/episodes/do-people-trust-the-news/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/learning-english-from-the-news-1026559/do-people-trust-the-news.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}