The idea of newsrooms run by AI agents might be a nightmare for many journalists. But these newsrooms are no longer hypotheticals. They already exist. While many outlets are still figuring out how to ...

In the past two decades, newsrooms learned how to make journalism visible to Google. They built SEO teams, trained their journalists to rewrite headlines and structured articles around search queries.

Costa Rica has fallen more than 30 places in RSF’s press freedom index in the past five years. In 2021, the country ranked 5th on the index, behind only four Nordic countries. By 2026, Costa Rica had ...

In previous research (Newman et al. 2025) we categorised news creators into four camps: commentary, investigation, explanation, and specialism – and also identified a layer of ‘news-adjacent’ ...

Almost all markets we cover in the Digital News Report survey have seen a decline in the use of offline news sources in the last decade. Printed newspapers, radio, and television have all experienced ...

Broadcast television has long been a popular format for audiences wanting to know about – and see – the biggest news stories of the day. But changes in technology and audience habits have been ...

Threats to press freedom in the United States have sharpened in 2026 amid civil strife at home and a new US-led war in the Middle East, with President Donald Trump threatening to prosecute reporters ...

The Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2026 will be published on Tuesday 16 June. Authored by Jim Egan, Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Nic Newman, Rasmus Nielsen, Mitali Mukherjee and ...

The New York Times publisher, A. G. Sulzberger, offered the opening remarks at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress in Marseille. Here we republished the full text of his speech, whose title was 'AI ...

From collective licensing to big coalitions, news publishers, nonprofits and startups are exploring ways to negotiate with Big Tech from a stronger position Yet a third way has recently emerged: ...

MAE SOT, Thailand. – Mae Sot is a dusty trading town on the border between Thailand and Myanmar. Lately, it has also become a precarious sanctuary for hundreds of Myanmar journalists and media workers ...

War has never been fought only on the ground. Clausewitz’s concept of the “fog of war” once described the uncertainty and confusion that cloud battlefield decision-making. Errol Morris’ 2003 ...