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Amy Ross Arguedas

Amy Ross Arguedas

Postdoctoral researcher at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford; media researcher specializing in digital news consumption and journalism.

Jul 6, 2026

1:25
Can you do a little bit of scene setting in terms of who's using AI chatbots for news and what the underlying trend is, if there is a clear trend visible?
1:37
Yeah, sure.
1:38
So I think the main big story that we see in this year's data is clear growth in the use of AI chatbots for news.
1:45
So we see 10% of our respondents globally are saying that they've used an AI chatbot for news in the past week.
1:53
And that's up three percentage points from last year.
1:56
So while it's still a pretty small minority of the population, it is a substantial relative increase.
2:02
compared to what we saw last year.

10 MINS LATER

12:25
Along with the question for the news industry and how this impacts the work that they do, it's sort of what can we bring to the audience that is value additive by the use of AI? What can publishers take away from this in terms of audiences and their relationship with AI for news specifically?

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