Every year, the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report provides a vital snapshot of the forces reshaping the global news industry, technological advancements and audience habits.

The latest 2026 edition offers some key insights for news publishers in the UK. Here, we distil the most important findings.

The platform tipping point

For the first time, online video networks have overtaken both TV and news websites/apps as the main source of news for UK audiences. Though on a global level, this is happening less and less on news-owned websites and apps (11 percentage point fall since 2021)

The UK joins 44 other........

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