🔶 #70: What I'm looking out for in the Digital News Report

Hello, and welcome back to the News Alchemists newsletter!

And a first welcome to new subscribers who found out about this little email dispatch in JournalismUK's list of 40 essential newsletters every journalist should read.

I was planning to go back to the standard 7-links setup today, after experimenting with different formats in the last few editions.

But then I read that today the 2026 Digital News Report (DNR) by the Reuters Institute was going to be published... and nobody needs seven more things to read when there's arguably the most important report of the year to explore.

Here it is, in all its 178-pages might.

Of course, like you, I haven't had time to read it yet, but I went back to last year's report to share with you three data points I will be looking for today as I read the report, to check how the situation evolved in the last twelve months.