Great to see that @eduardosuarez.bsky.social has been appointed Director of Editorial at @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. The research team benefits hugely from having such a great comms team to promote and discuss our work (and the wider work of the Institute) - and I know everyone appreciates it.

Always a bit awkward to do these posts but I was delighted to learn at the Future of Journalism Conference last week that I won @digitaljournalism.bsky.social's Outstanding Article of the Year Award for my paper on how AI reshapes the news' dependency on platforms companies.

Delighted to take on this extra role alongside my current role as Director of Research!

Our research team will attend the @cujournmedcul.bsky.social #FoJ2025 this week presenting papers on AI, election misinformation, climate news and more. Read the summaries of the research they'll be sharing below 👇

New paper with @kirstenaeddy.bsky.social in Journalism on whether people across 45 countries think news coverage of people their age, their gender, and with their political views is fair or unfair. We outline some interesting demographic differences (more details in 🧵)... doi.org/10.1177/1464...

How effective are user corrections on social media, and does adding a link to a fact check improve effectiveness? In piece led by @sachaltay.bsky.social we find corrections have small effects, adding a fact-check unlikely to make them more effective misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/the-... 1/6

📌 We are looking for a new Director of Journalist Programmes The successful candidate will lead on the delivery, strategic development, and long-term financial sustainability of all Journalist Programmes at the Institute. Apply by Mon 1 Sept, noon (UK time) More info: buff.ly/FTCNDd1

How harmful is GenAI around elections? Will it trigger a misinformation apocalypse and upend elections? I am happy to finally be able to share @sachaltay.bsky.social & my answers to these and other questions on which we have been working for a year and which is now out via @knightcolumbia.org

🚨 Now out in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨 We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The success of these tools will largely depend on how keen audiences are to use them in the first place, and there are big regional and demographic differences. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/ai-p...

🚨 Have you explored our Digital News Report 2025? Here are five figures you may have missed 1️⃣ 47% in our global sample consider politicians and online influencers as a major misinformation threat. The percentage for politicians is higher in Spain and the US (57%) More here buff.ly/pHwz59E

News is too much and too negative according to growing shares of the audience. In 2025, 40% say they sometimes or often avoid the news (up from 29% in 2017). Switzerland & Germany right on trend. Why? • 39%: “negatively affects my mood” • 31%: “worn out by the amount” • 30%: “too much conflict”

News consumers are increasingly veering towards social media and video platforms for their news over traditional news sources. This is one of the key findings of the latest @reutersinstitute.bsky.social’s Digital News Report, published today: ow.ly/ukUa50WaCS7

NEW: Another watershed media moment - social media overtakes TV as a source of news in the US for the first time. The march of the "news influencers" continues. Survey taken after Trump inauguration. One of many top findings in huge Reuters Institute study. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

“Alternative media voices [often] appeal to audiences that news publishers have been keen to engage with but [are] seen as the biggest [misinformation] threat worldwide along with national politicians”Mitali Mukherjee writes in intro to 2025 DNR reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news... 1/7

Our Digital News Report 2025 is out! 📊48 markets 🌏Almost 100K respondents 📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers 📱Explore now buff.ly/xLP67Tg 🧵Findings in thread #DNR25

So honored and grateful to have received The Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article of the Year Award from the #ICA25 @icajsd.bsky.social for a paper with my colleagues from the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Trust in News Project: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reuters...

Very proud to receive the #ICA25 Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Journal Article of the Year Award for our paper on how habit, emotion and identity relate to trust in news, led by @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social. Thank you to @icajsd.bsky.social. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reuters...

🚨 Mark your calendars! 🚨 Our Digital News Report 2025 will be published on Tues 17 June. This year’s report is based on a survey of almost 100,000 news consumers from 48 markets and will be presented at six global events with these 15 speakers All you need to know in this thread buff.ly/WTfoMls

Final @reutersinstitute.bsky.social presentation at #ICA25 today. @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social with Digital News Report data on who listens to podcasts, as part of a panel on amplifying communication research through podcasts.

Three @reutersinstitute.bsky.social presentations at #ICA25 today. 1. @waqasejaz.bsky.social Mary Sandford and me on the link between news use, climate anxiety and pro-environment behaviour across 8 countries.

Two #ICA25 presentations from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social researchers today. 1. For the early risers, me @felixsimon.bsky.social @waqasejaz.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social on what variables are associated with positive/negative attitudes towards the use of generative AI in news in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇰🇦🇷🇯🇵🇫🇷

Check out the details of the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social #ICA25 presentations here.

At the @icahdq.bsky.social #ICA25 conference, though admittedly only in spirit. Proud to be working with co-authors on two pieces of work presented there, one led by @richardfletcher.bsky.social on what shapes public attitudes to AI in news and one led by Tali Aharoni on trust.

Great write-up of our media + information literacy intervention funded by the @ssrc.org´s Mercury project www.ssrc.org/mercury-proj... partners: Bihar´s BRLPS & Dataleads. @sumitra.bsky.social @priyadarshi-amar.bsky.social Florian Sichart Looking forward to seeing and testing more of these!

Last Saturday, Linda Eggert and I were delighted to welcome a group of 30 fantastic speakers and guests for a symposium on AI agents at Balliol College, thanks to the support of the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute. Summary report later this summer, some first impressions…

Pew research finds that the vast majority of news influencers are still using X, and are more likely to use it than Bluesky (even left-leaning influencers). They are more likely to be regular posters on X, too.

“Most presidential ads were targeted toward parties’ own supporters […] we found no detectable effects of removing political ads on political knowledge, polarization […] candidate favorability, and turnout.” www.nber.org/papers/w33818

People’s general scepticism about the news media already means that they don’t really trust journalists to always check AI outputs. Cases like this don’t help - even if they are outliers. Chart from: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-does-pu...

News avoidance is an impulse that even top journalists feel from time to time.

📣 We're happy to announce that the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies will be hosting the 5th ECREA Journalism Studies section conference in Groningen, The Netherlands, on April 9th-10th, 2026! Join us and submit your abstract before August 22nd. Find the CfP here: www.rug.nl/research/ico...

Stop Blaming Social Media for Everything: The Minimal Effects of Facebook in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election www.jonathanmladd.com/uploads/5/3/...

View from Magdalen Tower this morning. Over 16,000 people attended this year's event 👏 📸 Instagram | BethStenlake #MayDay

@mitalilive.bsky.social @robynvinter.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards discussed our recent #UKJournalists report @cityjournalism.bsky.social Here's a summary of the panel by @marinaadami.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-cha...

I think there's an unspoken gender discussion in British journalism I'd love to hear more about... 🧵 some thoughts from me after the fascinating new research uncovered by @reutersinstitute.bsky.social this week about UK journalists in the 2020s 👇

YouGov has some interesting new survey results of what the UK population makes of AI chatbots: buff.ly/6r2fwDv

Tonight we'll present our new report on UK journalists in the 2020s at this event at @cityjournalism.bsky.social. Speakers include @robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards Register to join in person now buff.ly/9cAqOU9

Tomorrow we'll present our new report on UK journalists in the 2020s at this event at @cityjournalism.bsky.social. Speakers include @robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards Register to join in person now buff.ly/9cAqOU9

At least when it comes to social interaction (liking, sharing, commenting, etc.) around news specifically, @sachaltay.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social and me found clear evidence of a decline in recent years. doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Earlier this week we published a report on UK journalists. Edited by @neilthurman.bsky.social @imkehenkel.bsky.social Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri & @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it's based on a 2023 representative survey 📱Read it buff.ly/gIBRL1f 🧵Findings in thread

On Monday we'll present our new report on UK journalists in the 2020s at this event at @cityjournalism.bsky.social. Speakers include @robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards Register to join in person now buff.ly/cMA9XSB

Survey: UK journalists are getting older, more left-wing and increasingly freelance pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

Class privilege in UK journalism: My piece in @theconversation.com following the publication today of our @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report "UK Journalists in the 2020s" (reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...) theconversation.com/new-survey-s...

We've just published this report on the makeup of the journalistic profession in the UK. Most of them are White, upper-class, university educated, non-believers and politically left-leaning Many more findings in the report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...

New survey of UK journalists shows how the profession has changed in the last 10 years: - A shift away from permanent contracts - Lingering inequalities in pay/promotions - Ongoing technological changes that bring benefits but also worsen risks - Shifting ideas of roles and ethics Thread here:

Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? Answers next week in an exciting new report published by @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. Come to one of the launch events at @cityjournalism.bsky.social or @leedsunimedia.bsky.social: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/uk-...

📣 CfA on Public Discourses on AI We're guest-editing a SI of the International Journal of Press/Politics on "Global Myth and Magic around AI", focusing on timely issue of public discourses on AI. Deadline is June 15. Happy to answer any questions. Details: journals.sagepub.com/page/hij/glo... #IJPP

We're thinking about local news at this panel discussion @journalismfestival.com ft our own @richardfletcher.bsky.social along with @maritzafelix.bsky.social , @timfranklin.bsky.social , Noreen Gillespie and Daryna Shevchenko 🧵 Follow key points from the talk in thread

🇮🇹 Heading for the International Journalism Festival in Perugia? You'll find dozens of talks and panel discussions you shouldn't miss in this piece buff.ly/JCs0AL5 📍 Five talks featuring our journalists and researchers on AI, news avoidance, influencers, product and local journalism in thread

Thanks to @niemanlab.org for writing about our recent article in the International Journal of Communication (led by my fantastic former @reutersinstitute.bsky.social colleague @camilambpp.bsky.social)!👇