Digital News Report 2026. Episode 3: What the decline of old media can teach us

In this episode we explore the decline of offline media. In this episode of Future of Journalism we explore the steady decline of offline media for news such as TV, radio and newspapers. We look at adoption and retention rates to understand the various dynamics by which audience share is declining, how usage rates differ across demographics, and what these patterns could spell for the use of news websites and apps. Richard Fletcher is a co-author of the Digital News Report 2026 and is the Director of Research at the Reuters Institute. Host Mitali Mukherjee is the Director of the Reuters Institute and is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism Find a full transcript on our website: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-podcast-digital-news-report-2026-episode-3-what-decline-old-media-can-teach-us