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The EU’s approach to artificial intelligence centers on excellence and trust, aiming to boost research and industrial capacity while ensuring safety and fundamental rights.
The Data Journalism Handbook is a practical reference for journalists who want to find stories hidden inside databases, statistics and public records. It explains how to obtain, clean, analyse and interpret data without losing sight of the journalistic questions behind the numbers. Case studies from major news organisations show how data can support investigations, fact-checking and accountability reporting. The handbook also helps reporters transform complex datasets into accessible visualisations, interactive projects and compelling news stories.
(2025) An accelerating shift towards consumption via social media and video platforms is further diminishing the influence of ‘institutional journalism’ and supercharging a fragmented alternative media environment containing an array of podcasters, YouTubers, and TikTokers. Populist politicians around the world are increasingly able to bypass traditional journalism in favour of friendly partisan media, ‘personalities’, and ‘influencers’ who often get special access but rarely ask difficult questions, with many implicated in spreading false narratives or worse.
(Nic Newman)This FT Strategies analysis examines how publishers can use registration walls without sacrificing too much traffic or reader engagement. Registered users are more valuable because they are easier to understand, contact and convert into paying subscribers. But forcing readers to register too early can reduce page views, advertising impressions and content discovery. The report distinguishes between “soft” and “hard” registration models and shows how content quality, added features and clear communication can influence success.
This FT Strategies report, supported by the Google News Initiative, shows how publishers are moving AI from internal experiments to reader-facing services. It examines practical uses of chatbots, semantic search and conversational interfaces designed to help audiences discover and understand journalism. The project involved 15 publishers across the EMEA region
This Reuters Institute study explores how audiences in Mexico, the UK and the US perceive the growing use of generative AI in journalism. Participants tested 25 different applications, revealing that public attitudes become more nuanced when people see how AI is actually used in news production. Acceptance varies according to the task, the type of content, the medium and, above all, the degree of human oversight. Most participants considered editorial supervision essential, while transparency became especially important when AI was used to create or substantially alter news content.
This Reuters Institute study examines public attitudes towards generative AI in journalism across Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the UK and the US. It finds that audiences expect AI to have a major impact on news, but remain sceptical about whether news organisations will use it responsibly. People are generally more comfortable with journalism produced by humans and fear that AI could make news less trustworthy and less transparent.
This Reuters Institute study tests how ChatGPT-4o, Google Gemini and Perplexity responded to 100 questions about the 2024 UK general election. The researchers analysed 300 answers collected during the two weeks before polling day, including questions based on fact-checks and verified electoral information. ChatGPT and Perplexity usually provided direct answers, while Gemini declined to answer most election-related questions.