Director of Research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. Lead researcher + co-author of the Digital News Report. www.richardfletcher.me
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Here's an updated version of a piece by @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @annisch.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social and Craig T. Robertson originally published in 2020
📱 Full piece here buff.ly/iLaMzHa
🧵 4 findings in thread
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There is a growing concern that the negative valence in climate stories paralyses consumers & perhaps even prevents them from taking pro-environmental actions.
However, we found that climate anxiety is a robust and universal driver of pro-climate behavioral intentions.👇
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@annisch.bsky.social et al decided to have a look. Their results? "We found that appreciation for abundance was about twice as common as overload".
Paper: journalqd.org/article/view...
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Here's a summary by our own Gretel Kahn, which includes four takeaways and many insights from our speakers Emilio Doménech, Akash Banerjee and Mosheh Oinounou
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/summary...
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@hanaatameez.bsky.social wrote up a fascinating @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/news...
📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj
🧵6 findings in thread
It contains:
- 5 key findings (see link)
- Top 15 most mentioned news influencers and creators by survey respondents in 24 countries
- A typology of different content types (and examples of individuals that primarily produce each)
📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj
🧵6 findings in thread
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➡️rich data from 3rd wave of WJS study
➡️ survey of more than 32,350 journalists across 75 countries
➡️ perspectives from diverse media systems, political regimes, and cultural contexts
Free download
www.worldsofjournalism.org/reports-wjs3/
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This could suggest that people are using links to find more information rather than check whether AI is accurate - but hard to be sure and probably varies case by case.
This is higher than trust in individual chatbots, but mostly because it is more widely used.
Again, younger people have slightly higher trust.
As with many behaviours around gen AI, younger people are slightly more likely to say they click through.
It's already true that most people (54%) say that they have seen AI search results in the last week.
It's more common than the use of all chatbots combined (34%).
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➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
hopeful findings👇🏽
Full @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report by @felixsimon.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social and me.
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Older people are more likely to use it for the latest news (red bars) but younger people are more likely to use it to help them navigate news (green).
Gen Z (18-24) are particularly likely to use AI to make a news story easier to understand.
Though the most widespread use is getting the latest headlines, some are also using it to get more depth, for summarisation, or for making news easier to understand.
This thread is on how people use gen AI for news, specifically.
Though getting information is emerging as the key use of gen AI, only 6%on average across 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸 use it for news weekly, doubling since 2024.
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www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...
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@richardfletcher.bsky.social of @reutersinstitute.bsky.social at #NISWSW on #AI and #News
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@richardfletcher.bsky.social of @reutersinstitute.bsky.social with the opening talk to set the scene.
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In essence, they're increasingly using it for tasks that were once the primary domain of search engines and, by extension, news publishers. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...
ejc.net/events/news-...
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⬆️ A few systems, like ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot are more trusted than distrusted.
⬇️ Others, like Meta AI and DeepSeek are more distrusted than trusted.
