Frequency of professional AI use by UK journalists reporting on different beats

Business journalists use AI professionally more frequently than those on the lifestyle beat.

gen_per_use. How frequently do you personally work with AI in your journalistic tasks? beat. Which beat or subject area do you primarily work on or supervise? Base: Business = 114, Lifestyle = 93. Note: See percentages when spec_per_use is used as the measure of AI use (as in Figure 1) in this chart.
Source: 'AI adoption by UK journalists and their newsrooms: Surveying applications, approaches, and attitudes', published in November 2025.

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