Digital News Report 2026. Episode 7: The social impact of public service news

In this episode of Future of Journalism we explore attitudes around the social impact of news from public service media. In this episode we explore attitudes around the social impact of news from public service media. We’ll look at how these perceptions vary across the world, how this correlates with other attitudes and engagement patterns towards news, and what people say are the positive or negative aspects of public service news in their countries. Speakers: Jim Egan is the lead author of the Digital News Report 2026 and is a senior research associate 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 here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-podcast-digital-news-report-2026-episode-7-social-impact-public-service-news