{"id":9885,"date":"2026-01-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnti.org\/cnti-news\/\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:48:08","slug":"about-this-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnti.org\/reports\/chatbots-for-news\/about-this-study\/","title":{"rendered":"About This Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-delta-font-size wp-elements-ffcc171e832d4f8d0fb25ad2164008a4\" id=\"h-why-we-did-this\"><strong>Why we did this<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"amp-text-accent\"><span data-tooltip=\"AI chatbots \u2014 such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Google AI Mode or the Washington Post's \u201cAsk the Post AI\u201d \u2014 are software products which simulate human-like conversations and generate responses across a wide range of topics. Currently, AI chatbots are based on LLM technology.\" class=\"amp-tooltip\">AI chatbots<\/span><\/span> \u2014 such as ChatGPT, Grok, Amazon\u2019s Alexa, Google AI Mode or the Washington Post&#8217;s \u201cAsk the Post AI\u201d \u2014 are software products which simulate human-like conversations and generate responses across a wide range of topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While even their creators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8drzv37z4jo\">caution against<\/a> using them as arbiters of fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/system\/files\/working_papers\/w34255\/w34255.pdf\">research<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk\/generative-ai-and-news-report-2025-how-people-think-about-ais-role-journalism-and-society\">consistently<\/a> demonstrates that people increasingly rely on them for information about the world. The line between \u201cinformation\u201d and \u201cnews\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/cnti.org\/article\/defining-news-initiative-focus-group-insights-1-news-journalism-and-journalists\/\">hardly clear-cut<\/a>. Information-seeking is also likely to include many topics where AI chatbot users might previously have turned to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We set out to learn from relatively early adopters in two countries (the U.S. and India) why and how they have incorporated AI chatbots into their information routines, and what this might mean for news providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-delta-font-size\"><strong>Why we chose these two countries<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>India and the U.S. represent the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-12-10\/india-key-to-microsoft-amazon-google-and-intel-s-ai-plans\">two largest markets<\/a> for AI chatbots.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/country\/india\">India<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/country\/united-states\">U.S.<\/a> have highly concentrated news media ownership and increasingly politicized information habits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2198285&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\">India is mobile-first<\/a> in both behavior and infrastructure, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/fact-sheet\/mobile\/\">less than one in every five Americans<\/a> rely primarily on smartphones for internet access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Overall, Americans express more negative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/global\/2025\/10\/15\/how-people-around-the-world-view-ai\/\">attitudes towards AI<\/a> than Indians do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-delta-font-size wp-elements-b4503e68ca923facfc9578d5680c3c1d\" id=\"h-how-we-collected-our-data\"><strong>How we collected our data<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using the <a href=\"http:\/\/respondent.io\">Respondent.io<\/a> platform, the CNTI team recruited 27 adults in the U.S. and 26 in India. All of them participated in an hour-long virtual interview where they shared their screen and talked through their AI chatbot use and broader information habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-delta-font-size\"><strong>Recruitment<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To ensure that we were only speaking with <strong>regular users of AI chatbots<\/strong>, we excluded people who said they use AI chatbots less frequently than once a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To ensure that we were only speaking with <strong>people who pay attention to news information<\/strong> in the broadest sense, we excluded people who said they do not \u201ckeep informed about issues and events of the day\u201d at least \u201csomewhat closely.\u201d In practice, most interviewees turn at least somewhat regularly to legacy news media sources, often via news aggregators and social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond that, we took a maximum variation approach to a number of demographic variables within each country: age, gender, race and ethnicity, household income, educational attainment, location within the country and political ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After we had completed about 18 interviews for each country, we conducted additional targeted recruitment to capture groups that were not well represented in our initial pool, specifically adults age 55 and older (both countries) and adults without a bachelor\u2019s degree (U.S. only).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full recruitment questionnaire and topline demographics of our interviewees are available <a href=\"https:\/\/cnti.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Chatbots-for-News-report-topline.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-delta-font-size\"><strong>Thinkaloud protocol&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/0044929031000\">Concurrent thinkalouds<\/a> ask people to narrate their behavior and answer questions about it in real-time. They are particularly valuable for understanding topics like information habits where self-reported data are unreliable. The goal of this study is to observe the needs and desires of the early adopters using AI chatbots to receive news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our research protocol included three semi-structured modules. During the first 10-15 minutes of the conversation, we asked broad questions about interviewees\u2019 <span class=\"amp-text-accent\"><span data-tooltip=\"News repertoires refer to the full set of information sources that a person uses regularly. These include not only journalism outlets but also social media sites, aggregation platforms and individual creators.\" class=\"amp-tooltip\">news repertoires<\/span><\/span> and routines. We then turned to a screenshare and asked them to walk us through an AI chatbot query. For the last third of the interview, we asked interviewees to walk us through past AI chatbot queries, compare between the AI chatbots that they regularly use and provide more details about the other sources they turn to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-delta-font-size\"><strong>Researcher positionality<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers who designed the protocols, collected the data and analyzed the data are based in both the United States and India. CNTI\u2019s small team cannot fully represent the diversity and breadth of these countries. In addition to relatively high educational status, our team as a whole has a high affinity for and knowledge about journalism. These attitudes may have colored our interactions with the interviewees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researcher who conducted all Indian interviews speaks both English and Hindi fluently and used both languages in interviews; all U.S. interviews were conducted in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-delta-font-size wp-elements-723421efe395f9db8020c5c623ca3706\" id=\"h-how-we-analyzed-our-data\"><strong>How we analyzed our data<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research team created transcripts of interview audio, adding copious screenshots to clarify references in the text. After anonymization, transcripts were imported into <a href=\"https:\/\/dedoose.com\/\">Dedoose<\/a> qualitative analysis software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two researchers conducted the bulk of the coding process, working separately on U.S. and India interviews, with a third researcher contributing to coding U.S. interviews. The codes were developed iteratively, with some codes informed by existing frameworks and others emergent in the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-delta-font-size\"><strong>Transcription process&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interviews were conducted with Google Meet, and Google Gemini produced a first transcript. Researchers reviewed each transcript for major errors prior to coding, and all quotations that appear in this report were reviewed by a researcher before publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-delta-font-size\"><strong>Coding and follow-up analysis<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CNTI team\u2019s initial coding schema focused on three different areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Informational needs and how people meet those needs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interactions with AI chatbots<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Verification practices and concerns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three areas correspond roughly to the three chapters of this report. We coded screenshots, text and anything else that fell within the thematic areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all documents were coded, we reviewed all excerpts with the same code within each country to inductively identify further themes and patterns within each larger category. The researchers were in constant discussion about similarities and differences, and reviewed each chapter repeatedly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This type of qualitative approach surfaces the breadth of experiences, but not the frequency of those experiences. In general, any theme that was shared by at least three interviewees in a single country appears in the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-echo-font-size\"><strong>Informational needs&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The codes that fell under this category were informed by a set of reasons for seeking information identified by audience practitioners, also known as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/smartocto.com\/blog\/explaining-user-needs\/\">news user needs<\/a>\u201d framework. This framework categorizes the reasons that people access news content into four basic needs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>People need to <strong>act <\/strong>and <strong>decide<\/strong>, and they need help.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People need to <strong>know<\/strong> what\u2019s going on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They need to <strong>understand<\/strong> what\u2019s going on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People need stories that make them <strong>feel<\/strong> something, whether that\u2019s outrage or joy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-echo-font-size\"><strong>Interactions with chatbots<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two initial codes fell into this category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first was a broad sequencing code that we used to identify both:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>extended interaction sequences<\/strong> with the AI chatbot, including repeated promptings or accepting suggested prompts and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>toggling<\/strong> between chatbots and other elements of interviewees\u2019 news repertoires.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second was for anthropomorphization, and included all actions or discussions where interviewees treated the AI chatbot as a human participant in interaction. This might include characterizations (e.g. \u201coh it\u2019s my best friend\u201d) as well as prompting strategies that treat it as human (e.g. including \u201cplease,\u201d calling it \u201cstupid\u201d in a prompt).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-echo-font-size\"><strong>Verification practices and concerns<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were interested in whether interviewees are concerned about the accuracy of the information they receive and how they approach verifying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Concerns we coded for included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Privacy <\/strong>and data protection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bias <\/strong>in both the AI chatbots and other news sources<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Delayed or outdated information<\/strong> being provided<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Broad questions about the <strong>information supply chain<\/strong> and how AI chatbots and other news sources verify (or don\u2019t verify) their information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Verification practices and strategies we coded for (all AI chatbot-specific) included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Checking the <strong>list of sources <\/strong>and assuming those sources were reflected accurately<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clicking through to <strong>external links <\/strong>and ensuring that those sources were reflected accurately<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Comparing <\/strong>the responses between two different AI chatbots<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Auditing <\/strong>AI chatbot responses by asking them known questions to assess performance before relying on them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also included several other pathways.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-delta-font-size wp-elements-8516a9033d9afdea0a67c1e9f3fb1053\" id=\"h-how-we-protected-the-research-data\"><strong>How we protected the research data<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AI chat window terminal is a deeply personal space and the researchers in this project are incredibly grateful to interviewees who opened this safe space to them. CNTI\u2019s audio and video recordings and follow-up messages from interviewees contain a great deal of personal information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All identifying information (including consent forms and video recordings of interviews) were saved on a password-protected, encrypted cloud drive that is only authorized to the core research team at CNTI. All interviews were conducted using our team\u2019s videoconferencing software. Google Gemini was used to create first-draft transcripts; our team uses a workspace account that does not share data or use it for training purposes. Interviewees could opt out of automated transcription, although none did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, transcripts and screenshots were anonymized to the extent possible before export for analysis in Dedoose. Information like names, specific locations and employment details were redacted, as were photos of individual faces. We present demographic information only in the aggregate (see <a href=\"https:\/\/cnti.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Chatbots-for-News-report-topline.pdf\">topline<\/a>) to prevent anyone from identifying individuals who participated in this research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-aktiv-grotesk-condensed-font-family has-echo-font-size\" id=\"h-ethical-review\"><strong>Ethical review<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Research plans were reviewed and approved by <a href=\"http:\/\/terc.edu\">TERC<\/a> Institutional Review Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consent forms were available in both English and Hindi, although no interviewees used the Hindi version of the form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-gridible-responsive-spacer\" style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-gridible-responsive-spacer\" style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading 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