Digital News Report 2026. Episode 5: The growing importance of online news video

In this episode of Future of Journalism we explore how online news video is playing an ever important role in our news ecosystem. In this episode we explore how online news video is playing an ever important role in our news ecosystem given the shift towards news consumption on social and video networks as well as the prevalence of smart TVs. We explore where in the world the appetite for online news video is increasing, among which demographic groups they are most popular and how different video lengths differ across platforms. Speakers: Craig T. Robertson<https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-craig-t-robertson> is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. His research focus includes news trust and credibility, fact-checking and verification, and how both partisan attitudes and epistemic beliefs factor into these domains. He is a co-author of the Digital News Report. Host Mitali Mukherjee<https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/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. A full transcript of the podcast can be found here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-podcast-digital-news-report-2026-episode-5-growing-importance-online-news-video