The Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2026 highlights a news industry in India that is in flux. Trust in news fell four percentage points year-on-year to 39 percent, in line with a global decline to a decade-low 37 percent — “the lowest since we started recording this figure a decade ago,” says Jim Egan, senior research associate and lead author of the report.
To unpack what these findings mean on the ground, Mitali Mukherjee, director of the Reuters Institute, hosted a panel featuring Dhanya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of The News Minute, Pradeep Gairola of The Hindu Group, Sannuta Raghu of Scroll, and Jim Egan, who discussed what this shift means for newsrooms of very different scales.
