Despite the rapid uptake of generative AI, just a small proportion say they use it for news, according to our Digital News Report 2025. Co-author Richard Fletcher explains more here.
Learn more about AI and news from our #DNR25:
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Just one-in-five people pay for online news according to our Digital News Report 2025, which tracks a group of 20 countries where many publishers actively seek reader revenue.
Lead author of the #DNR25 Nic Newman explains more here.
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TikTok is the fastest growing digital platform in this year’s survey, adding a further 4 points across markets in terms of news use (17%) and reaching 49% of our online sample in Thailand (+10 points), 40% in Malaysia (+9).
More on our #DNR25
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🏙️ This week's Digital News Report 2025 podcast explores how people learn about the latest news and information from their area, the role of platforms, and what explains global variations.
With Richard Fletcher and Mitali Mukherjee
#DNR25
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🚨What's the value of mobile news alerts?
Our latest #DNR25 podcast discusses their growth, whose sending them, and why they are a turn off for some news consumers.
With Nic Newman and host @mitalilive.bsky.social
Audio and transcript 👇
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The latest edition of our daily roundup is out, featuring 3 findings from #DNR25 about paying for news and readings on media company mergers, the resignation of a WaPo columnist, and more.
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The latest edition of our daily roundup is out, featuring 3 findings from #DNR25 about the reach of YouTube and readings on new developments in AI and platforms.
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The latest edition of our daily roundup is out, featuring 3 findings from #DNR25 about platform shifts and readings on Ukraine’s lack of journalism funding, the strategy of the NYT’s opinion section, and more.
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Findings and stats from the report
Nic Newman presenting results and findings from the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social‘s Digital News Report 2025 at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum.
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The latest edition of our daily roundup is out, featuring 3 findings from #DNR25 about the US media ecosystem and readings on Google’s lack of traffic referrals, the fate of a Gaza BBC doc, and more
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The latest edition of our daily roundup is out, featuring 3 findings from #DNR25 about local news and readings on suspended X accounts, a NYT scoop, and more.
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The latest edition of our daily roundup is out, featuring 3 findings from #DNR25 and readings on AI in newsrooms, the BBC Gaza documentary, and more.
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A summary of our #DNR25 US launch, featuring top editors from NYT, Reuters and BBC News as well as our own @richardfletcher.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social
We will be streaming our US launch of the Digital News Report 2025 (pre-recorded), hosted by Reuters in New York City last week, across our social media channels at 14:00 UK time today. Stay tuned.
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Graph showing increasing social use in all countries as news source.
In general, more and more people are using social media as a news source, though the trend is less in Europe, helping fuel the growth of a personality-driven alternative media sector.
#DNR25
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Graph showing change in twitter use over time by political leaning. Use by left leaning has gone down, by right leaning has gone up a lot.
Unfortunately, a large percentage of people in the USA still use Twitter for news
#DNR25
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Some non-surprises in the always important annual Digital News Report by @reutersinstitute.bsky.social
- Video continues to grow in importance as a source of news
- Trust in news remains stable
- But few people will pay
#DNR25
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The latest edition of our daily roundup is out, featuring 3 findings from #DNR25 and readings on press freedom in Syria, NYT working with food influencers and CBS settlement with Donald Trump
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According to our #DNR25, audiences in most countries remain sceptical about the use of AI in news
They expect that AI will make the news cheaper to make (+29 net difference), but less accurate (-8), and less trustworthy (-18)
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The latest edition of our daily roundup on journalism is out, featuring three findings from our own #DNR25 on misinformation, and readings on Spotify, a controversy surrounding the BBC, and a key ruling on platforms in Brazil
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58% remain concerned about misinformation, according to our #DNR25
Concern is highest in Africa & US, where social media use is high.
📱Influencers are seen as the biggest threat in Nigeria (58%) & Kenya (59%)
🤵🏻♂️Politicians, in US & Spain (57%)
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"Mobile news alerts have grown over the last decade, alongside our increasing reliance on smartphones. Weekly use of alerts in the US has grown from 6% to 23% since 2014 and from 3% to 18% in the UK"
Read this #DNR25 chapter by Nic Newman
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@nytimes.com’s Managing Editor Carolyn Ryan also says the outlet pulled back, at least relatively, from social three years ago, not requiring its journalists to be there. “We’re not obsessing on X.”
From #DNR25 report launch in NYC.
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Answering @rasmuskleis.bsky.social’s Q about why do publishers remain on X despite minuscule referral traffic, BBC’s Kevin Ponniah says that with Breaking News X account’s 50m followers, and the fact that its tweets are automated, “It’d be silly to pull back.”
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Our latest podcast episode explores what news audiences worldwide think of how AI is used to re-format and personalise news. Featuring co-author of the #DNR25
@amyrossarguedas.bsky.social and our director @mitalilive.bsky.social
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
Our latest edition of Journalism Today features analysis from our #DNR25 on the role of online video in news.
Plus, we have a round-up of some of the most important news stories on journalism worldwide.
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According to survey data from our #DNR25, 30% of those who avoid the news often or sometimes mention "too much coverage of conflict or war" as one of the key reasons
Many more insights in our Digital News Report 2025
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Our latest edition of Journalism Today features analysis from our #DNR25 on how the role of X/Twitter for news is changing.
Plus, we have a round-up of some of the most important news stories on journalism worldwide.
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«La esencia del #podcast radica en su infalible poder para emocionarnos con sonidos (y silencios)». En #AudioGen destacamos la #T3 @deesonosehabla.bsky.social, el peso del #podcast informativo en el #DNR25, el menú de #audio en Colombia y las recomendaciones de Raúl Rodríguez
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