Survey or industry report
AI adoption among UK journalists and their newsrooms: surveying applications, approaches and attitudes
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 2025
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- A survey of 1,004 UK journalists, conducted between August and November 2024, on how often they use AI for 31 journalistic tasks. Transcription and captioning was the most frequent of those tasks.
- How much weight it carries
- Large, broadly representative sample from a respected research institute, with a published method. It covers AI in general and UK journalists only, and the frequencies are self-reported. It does not measure dictation separately from other AI transcription, so it cannot tell you how many journalists dictate.
Facts taken from this source
- In a survey of 1,004 UK journalists, 56 percent use AI professionally at least once a week.
“More than half (56%) of UK journalists use AI professionally at least once a week” (Executive summary)
- In a survey of 1,004 UK journalists, 49 percent use AI for transcription or captioning at least monthly, the most frequent of the 31 journalistic tasks the survey asked about.
“(49% of UK journalists use AI for this task at least monthly)” (Executive summary and section 1.2)