Authorship, acknowledgements and image credits

Authorship, acknowledgements and image credits

28th October 2025

About the authors

Nic Newman is Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and is also a consultant on digital media, working actively with news companies on product, audience, and business strategies for digital transition. He writes an annual report for the Institute on future media and technology trends.

Dr Amy Ross Arguedas is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital News at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She has worked extensively on issues around trust in media and previously worked as a journalist for the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación.

Mitali Mukherjee is Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism. Mitali was Consulting Business Editor at The Wire and Mint in India. Prior to that she was Markets Editor at CNBC TV 18 and Prime Time Anchor at TV Today and Doordarshan.

Dr Richard Fletcher is Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He is primarily interested in global trends in digital news consumption, the use of social media by journalists and news organisations, and the relationship between technology and journalism.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express appreciation to those who have provided advice and suggestions for improvement to the manuscript.

We are particularly grateful to our Digital News Report partners and other experts who took time to sense-check our country-based lists and analysis, namely Sora Park and Jee Young Lee, University of Canberra for Australia and South Korea; Lucas Graves, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States; Colette Brin and Sébastien Charlton, Centre d’études sur les medias, Canada; Eugenia Mitchelstein, Center for the Study of Media and Society (MESO), Argentina; Rodrigo Carro, journalist, Brazil; Víctor García Perdomo, Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia; Tania Montalvo, Reuters Institute, for Mexico; Janet Steele, George Washington University; Uni Lubis, Editor, IDN Times, Indonesia; Reiko Saisho, NHK, Japan; Yvonne T. Chua, University of the Philippines; Dhanaraj Kheokao, University of Potsdam for Thailand; Alice Antheaume, Sciences Po Journalism School, France; Sascha Hölig and Leonie Alatassi, Leibniz Institute, Germany; Eduardo Suárez, Reuters Institute, for Spain; Jorien Scholtens and Edmund Lauf, Commissariaat voor de Media, the Netherlands; Janne Biedilæ Bjørgan, University of Bergen, Norway; Václav Štětka, Loughborough University, for the Czech Republic; Vadim Makarenko, journalist, Poland; Tolulope Adeyemo, Code for Africa, Nigeria; George Nyabuga, Aga Khan University, Kenya; Chris Roper, Deputy Director, Code for Africa, South Africa. Despite this valuable input, the authors at the Reuters Institute remain fully responsible for this report, including any mistakes.

We would also like to thank the research and editorial teams at the Reuters Institute for their input and suggestions as we defined the scope of this report. And we also appreciate all those involved in the production of this complex report under tight deadlines, including Publications Officer Alex Reid, copyeditor Margaret Hunter, and designer Simon Henderson, as well as Eduardo Suárez for web production and distribution.

Image credits

  • Russell Brand. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=170670693

  • Johnny Harris. YouTube/@johnnyharris

  • Raza Graphy. Instagram/@razagraphyunscripted

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  • Tizzy Ent. Instagram/@tizzyent

  • Matt Bernstein. Instagram/@mattxiv

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  • Martin Lewis. By Lenny Carter

  • Alicia Joe YouTube/@AliciaJoe

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  • Larry Madowo. Instagram/@larrymadowo

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  • Macgyver Mukwevho. YouTube/@MacG

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