The Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2026 was published on Tuesday 16 June. Authored by Jim Egan, Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Nic Newman, Rasmus Nielsen, Mitali Mukherjee and Richard Fletcher, this year’s report is based on almost 100,000 interviews with online news consumers and covers 48 markets.
The report provides in-depth insights into how audiences around the world are engaging with news at an especially turbulent time, with new data on rapidly changing consumption patterns, the continued rise of creators, and what people think about the way news companies are covering big stories.
This year’s report includes dedicated chapters on the emerging use of AI chatbots, the rise of news video, how audiences engage with news creators, attitudes towards impartiality, why traditional publishers are losing news audiences, and how people perceive public service news.
The Institute is publishing a new interactive, allowing anyone to dive into data from their own market and compare figures across countries and demographics. The interactive, created by Lars Verspohl and Ashish Singh with contributions from the Institute's editorial and research teams, is available in English and Spanish. It features data from many of the variables we’ve been tracking for more than a decade, and breakdowns by gender, age, education and political leaning.
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