Good morning and welcome to your daily Press Gazette media briefing on Tuesday, 17 June.

Hi all - apologies for our rare day off this newsletter yesterday. But I’m sure you’ll be pleased to hear Dom is enjoying (albeit slightly overwhelmed by!) his first Cannes Lions experience.

His initial hot takes from a very hot Cannes are: everyone is prepping for Google zero on news traffic, Reddit wants to be the new Twitter for journalists, and lots of talk about the need for brands to get over safety fears around supporting news. More to come soon.

But what a day to return - one of the biggest of the year for media geeks. The launch of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report.

Obviously we always recommend reading the full report. But for anyone who is too busy to get stuck in, at least straight away, here’s our initial digest.

I’ve rounded up several of the key themes. AI chatbots were inevitably mentioned - I found it interesting to see the actual scale of usage (7% of respondents globally are using them for news). Although it’s small, it’s not insignificant either and it’s early days. I already can’t wait to see where it is in 2026, for better or worse.

Other nuggets I picked out included the stagnation of digital subscriptions and the proportion willing to pay, how fragmented platforms are nowadays - it’s a far cry from the days when it was just all about Facebook and a little of Twitter - and the ongoing threat to the legacy media from alternative/individual creators.

We’re also thrilled to have an in-depth piece from lead report author Nic Newman who has dug into the data on mobile push notifications for us.

It’s a tricky balance: how many do you send to both keep people informed and get their attention as much as you can without annoying them? The data provides some direction on that front.

I’ll be attending the London launch of the report this morning so should have more from you on some of the big themes and publisher responses to them tomorrow.

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On Press Gazette

News trends for 2025: AI chatbots, social video boom, platform fragmentation and rise of news influencers

'Challenges for institutional journalism are intensifying' in platform-enabled ecosystem, report finds.

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Walking the mobile notification tightrope: How to engage audiences while avoiding overload

Nic Newman examines latest data on use and audience response to push alerts.

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News in brief

Journalism figures recognised in the King's Birthday Honours this weekend included: ex-Today presenter Martha Kearney (CBE), longtime Guardian economics editor Larry Elliot (CBE) and Sky News director of operations Jacqueline Faulkner (MBE).

British journalist Charlotte Meredith, who lived in Australia working as deputy social media editor for Daily Mail Australia and previously worked at Huffpost, The Independent and Vice in the UK, has taken her own life aged 36. Here is an obituary written by her mother. (The Guardian)

A licensed edition of Time in France is being launched with 360BusinessMedia with a website going live in the autumn and the first quarterly print issue with a run of 100,000 copies coming at the end of the year. They will have a mix of original content from a French editorial team and curated articles from the US edition. (Time)

The Competition and Markets Authority is consulting on releasing Google from pro-competition commitments around its Privacy Sandbox after the tech giant said it's no longer planning to ask users to decide if they want to block third-party cookies on Chrome. (Gov.uk)

More than 100 journalists have signed an Amnesty International open letter calling on Keir Starmer to demand international reporters can access Gaza and provide support to Palestinian journalists.