Overview
AI is central to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s mission to explore the future of journalism worldwide. Since 2016, we have worked with journalists and editors, technologists, and others to better understand what the development of artificial intelligence might mean for the future of news, and published research on various aspects of this.
Here you can find more information about what we are doing around AI for practising journalists covering these technologies and the issues they raise, for editors and news media executives navigating what they might mean for the industry, and for everyone interested in learning more about AI and the future of news from our research and our original reporting. | Learn more | Sign up for updates on our AI work
How audiences think about news personalisation in the AI era
OK computer? Understanding public attitudes towards the uses of generative AI in news
A selection of our latest reporting on AI and the future of news. Find all our work on this topic here.
Speed, hoaxes and mistrust: How AI is transforming freelance journalism
JournalismAI Festival 2025: Four projects that caught our eye and a few rising trends
What Nikkei learnt from building its own Japanese AI chatbot
Nordic AI in Media Summit 2025: Five takeaways from this annual event on the future of news
How a small Nigerian newsroom used AI for a flooding investigation
This AI expert is creating a chatbot to keep you safe
AI and the Future of News Conference
Sign up for our free conference on AI and the future of news on Tuesday, 17 March.
For the second consecutive year, we are hosting a one-day AI conference featuring presentations and panel discussions with journalists from Brazil, Britain, Nigeria and the United States, and experts from the University of Oxford and beyond.
The schedule for the day includes discussions on how AI is transforming journalism and impacting society as a whole. There will also be presentations of the Institute’s research, including our work on what audiences make of AI’s role in news, and on AI adoption by UK journalists and their newsrooms.
The first edition of the conference, held in March 2025, featured leading journalists, experts and researchers at the cutting edge of understanding and using this technology. Watch the event in full and read a summary.
The information ecosystem is being redrawn by AI. That might be good news
Advertising was always going to come for AI chatbots. The real question is how
AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt
On the cusp of abundance? How AI may redefine our relationship with news
Your AI butler will serve you “factslop”: How zero click hurts the consumer, and the newsrooms LLMs depend on
Is it a good idea to use AI to clone real journalists’ voices? It depends how you interpret the question
How AI can help journalists rebuild a fraying connection with their audiences
Neither humans-in-the-loop nor transparency labels will save the news media when it comes to AI
We need clarity about the deals between AI companies and news publishers. Here’s why
How news coverage, often uncritical, helps build up the AI hype
How the news ecosystem might look like in the age of generative AI
Our three key priorities
Evidence
We bring research, original reporting, and world-class computer scientists from the University of Oxford to discussions around AI and the future of news.
Engagement
We host private sessions where journalists, editors, and executives can learn about AI without the pressure to be “on message.”
Expansion
We want to enable discussions that take a broader view than “what can journalists and news media do with AI” and also consider AI as a topic to cover, a reason for concern for many journalists, and something they need to try to understand.
By focusing on these three key priorities we hope to enrich a discussion also enabled by many other interesting initiatives including JournalismAI from LSE's think tank Polis, AI Journalism Lab from CUNY, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, the Generative AI in the Newsroom project, the AI Media and Democracy Lab, the AI Elections Initiative from Aspen Digital, AI in Media from WAN-IFRA and others.
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When AI meets creative writing: an audio experiment at Czech Radio
The day AI clones took over a Swiss radio station
Meet NAT, the AI-generated presenter offering soft news to Mexican audiences
Our work on AI and the future of news is supported by initial seed funding from our launch partners at Reuters.
Our Digital Deep Dives on AI are in partnership with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The Institute’s core funding comes from the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Beyond this, we receive support from a wide range of other funders including academic funding bodies, foundations, news media, technology companies, regulators, and others, and earn income from leadership development programmes and other activities. More about our funding here.
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