[Commlist] New book: Too Much News. Understanding News Saturation

TOO MUCH NEWS. UNDERSTANDING NEWS SATURATION
New open access book by Hallvard Moe and Brita Ytre-Arne, 2026, Bristol 
University Press
We are happy to announce the publication of our new book, /Too Much 
News. Understanding News Saturation/, which is now published open access 
by Bristol University Press. The book is freely available to read and 
download here https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/too-much-news
This book explores the growing phenomenon of news saturation: why 
ordinary people, including regular news users, increasingly tune out, 
switch off and step back. Drawing on our long-term research into news 
experiences in everyday life, it reveals how information overload, 
doomscrolling and news fatigue are reshaping our relationship with media 
and democracy.
News saturation is an individually assessed tipping point for no longer 
finding news valuable, for needing a break – at least for a while. In 
the book we outline this concept as a necessary intervention in debates 
on news avoidance. Based on our longitudinal qualitative research in 
Norway, and contextualized with findings from the Reuters Digital News 
Report, we unpack the various aspects of the digital media landscape 
that feel like “too much” for audiences: News is too intrusive, too 
trivial, too distressing, too uncertain, and too distant. The book 
provides essential insight on how audiences perceive news on difficult 
topics such as war and climate change, but also on how they relate to 
celebrity culture and to news in the attention economy. In the final 
chapter, we discuss what journalism can do to make news work better for 
people, and why news saturation is not the same as societal disengagement.
The digital version is fully open access and can be downloaded, in full 
or chapter by chapter, from the publisher website. If you prefer a print 
copy, you can order it for GBP 29.99, and if you are quick, there is a 
temporary 50 percent discount code: CNF26.
*Contents:*
Chapter 1 Introduction: There Is Such a Thing as Too Much News
Chapter 2 Too Intrusive: News in the Attention Economy
Chapter 3 Too Trivial: News in Celebrity Culture
Chapter 4 Too Distressing: News in the Permacrisis
Chapter 5 Too Uncertain: News in Conditions of Doubt
Chapter 6 Too Distant: News in Everyday Life
Chapter 7 Conclusion: Better News
Link: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/too-much-news 
<https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/too-much-news> Contact: 
_brita.ytre-arne@uib.no_ <mailto:(brita.ytre-arne /at/ uib.no)>

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