Young people's news habits have changed in the past 10 years, with 18-24s citing social media as their main source, compared to news websites/apps 10 years ago. IG/TikTok use for news has grown, while FB has declined dramatically.
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New report on young audiences out today with Craig T. Robertson, @mitalilive.bsky.social, and @richardfletcher.bsky.social, based on over a decade of Reuters Institute research. Key findings and links to the report in this thread.
ONLINE FIRST! This article by @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social compares inequalities in #news use in traditional offline and #online news #media environments over time among #internet users in six countries.
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🚨 📖 Final output for this year: I am thrilled to present the summary report from our summer symposium "Reckoning with AI Agents", co-authored with @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social and Linda Eggert.
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Another thing I read recently: The AI and Journalism Research Working Group (of which my colleague @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social and I are a part), convened by the @cnti.bsky.social has synthesised findings from 55 studies to evaluate how AI transcription & translation tools are impacting journalism
Esta semana publicamos en el Instituto Reuters un informe sobre los creadores de contenido y los influencers de noticias en 24 países, incluido España.
Dejo en este hilo algunas cosas que me han llamado la atención
El informe completo aquí
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Our new report provides a typology of news creators, based on analysis of 24 countries
The report, by Nic Newman, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, makes a distinction between those who focus on hard news and those touching news-adjacent topics
🚨New report out today with Nic Newman, @mitalilive.bsky.social, and @richardfletcher.bsky.social mapping out the news creator and influencer space from the vantage point of audiences across 24 countries. It includes a typology of news creators, key trends, and lists of most mentioned individuals.👇
@reutersinstitute.bsky.social New publication on the vast, and often hard to define world of news creators & influencers cross 24 countries.
Authored by Nic Newman, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social me and @richardfletcher.bsky.social Our report here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...
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Most people want platforms (not governments) to be responsible for moderating content, according to a new piece from our own Craig T. Robertson, based on survey data from 8 countries that we collected in 2024
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🧵 Key points and charts in thread
And finally tomorrow at 15:30: a joint paper with @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social on audiences and their views on AI-generated misinformation 🤖 ⚠️
The editorial team at @reutersinstitute.bsky.social has put together a website of our talks, featuring @waqasejaz.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social, @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, & a collab with @c3ds.bsky.social
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How harmful is GenAI around elections? Will it trigger a misinformation apocalypse and upend elections?
I am happy to finally be able to share @sachaltay.bsky.social & my answers to these and other questions on which we have been working for a year and which is now out via @knightcolumbia.org
The success of these tools will largely depend on how keen audiences are to use them in the first place, and there are big regional and demographic differences. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/ai-p...
En español: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/es/digital-n...
Younger people, who tend to be more comfortable with AI in general, also showed greater interest in the use of AI for personalising *formats* (e.g. adapting articles to different reading levels), as well as chatbots.
More broadly, respondents tended to express more enthusiasm across the board in countries where comfort with the use of AI in journalism is higher, such as India and Thailand, whereas we see much lower interest in countries with low AI comfort, such as the UK.
We found some differences by markets: e.g. translation ranks higher in linguistically unique European countries (e.g. Finland, Hungary); interest in adapting language for dif reading levels ranks higher in countries with lower literacy rates or reading proficiency (most popular option in India).
We found relatively low interest – below 30% – for any single option (which may be shaped by low familiarity with these kinds of tools). Interest was highest in options for making news use more efficient (summaries and translations) and relevant (customised homepages and recommendations or alerts).
Then we looked at audience interest in 8 different types of AI-driven news personalisation, including options for personalised *selection* (e.g. customised news homepages), but also options for personalised *formats* (e.g. summaries, translations, text-to-audio) and AI chatbots.
In open comments, those who said they were comfortable with personalised news selection explained they appreciated things like greater relevance, efficiency, and diversity; those who were uncomfortable questioned the quality of recommendations or worried about biases, missing out, surveillance, etc.
We found that close to half of respondents are comfortable with personalised news selection, but comfort was lower than personalisation for weather, music, or online TV (and higher than for social media/video feeds).
First, we looked at audience comfort with personalised *selection* across different kinds of websites and apps to understand how comfort with algorithmic recommendation in news compares to other domains.
Here are some key findings about how audiences think about news personalisation in the AI era from my chapter in the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Digital News Report 2025. 🧵 #DNR25
"When we ask audiences about their interest in options for adapting news to their needs with AI, we find relatively low interest across the board"
Read @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social chapter on how audiences think about personalisation and AI #DNR25
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News is too much and too negative according to growing shares of the audience.
In 2025, 40% say they sometimes or often avoid the news (up from 29% in 2017). Switzerland & Germany right on trend.
Why?
• 39%: “negatively affects my mood”
• 31%: “worn out by the amount”
• 30%: “too much conflict”
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Today's the big day! Here is a thread with some of the key findings from our Digital News Report 2025 #DNR25
