Digital News Report 2026. Episode 4: How people are using AI chatbots for news

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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In this episode of Future of Journalism, we look at who's using AI chatbots for news and the different ways they do so

In this episode we explore findings from our Digital News Report 2026 around the different ways that people are using AI chatbots for news. We explore how use of AI chatbots for news around the world correlates with other forms of news engagement such frequency of access and trust. We look at how people say they use chatbots for news such as summarising, digging deeper or just getting headlines, and we explore data to inform the discussion around 'zero click-throughs' to publisher websites.

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https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-podcast-digital-news-report-2026-episode-4-how-people-are-using-ai-chatbots-news