Frequency of professional AI use by male and female UK journalists

Male journalists are more likely to use AI professionally on a weekly basis (36%) than their female colleagues (30%).

gen_per_use. How frequently do you personally work with AI in your journalistic tasks? gender. What is your gender? Base: Male = 552, Female = 445. 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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