Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report

What the Digital News Report means for your media strategy

The annual Digital News Report is a must read for media leaders. Its findings routinely offer valuable insights that publishers can use to shape and inform their revenue strategies, content formats and investment in technology. This year’s report, the 15th in the series, offers similar value, with findings based on a survey of almost 100,000 online news consumers across 48 markets around the world.  Here is what media leaders need to know.  1. P…

Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report

Our 2026 report finds news audiences around the world reacting with growing unease to successive episodes of political, economic, and technological turbulence. Assumptions about the way the world works are being questioned as longstanding international alliances shift, the global trading system comes under strain, and the basic shape of the post-war order appears uncertain. At the same time, people are adapting to the rapid diffusion of artificial intelligence across many aspects of everyday life and, for many, the practical realities of climate change are increasingly being felt.