Our new study finds journalists: 👉 with higher AI knowledge and/or 👉 who work at newsrooms where AI is more integrated see AI in journalism as an opportunity to a significantly higher extent: openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/35... That said, AI is seen as more of a threat than an opportunity.

Important research from @suttontrust.bsky.social about privilege of 100 elite media editors/presenters. Our @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report looks wider—at ALL UK journalists. We found over 22% privately educated. Well above the 7% nationwide: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...

On 31 Dec, the @ajc.com will quit print & go online-only. What will happen to the audience attention it attracts? If the pattern's the same as @richardfletcher.bsky.social & I found for @the-independent.com, then none of the print reading mins will move online: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We're happy to share the full questionnaire we used in our recent survey of UK journalists on artificial intelligence: figshare.com/articles/onl... @sinatk.bsky.social & I designed the questionnaire with the assistance of students from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.

New @indexoncensorship.org piece on our @reutersinstitute.bsky.social UK Journalists report. Mark Stimpson highlights our findings on UK journalists' diversity; experience of safety threats; & thoughts on media freedom, objectivity, & their societal roles: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/06/uk-j...

Pornhub is to suspend their site in France in protest at a new age verification law: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... In our research, we found that 41% of 15–17-year-olds in France had seen porn via such porn sites, on average within the last month: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@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...

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

Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? And how has all this changed in the last decade? Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report answers these questions. It's based on our representative survey of 1130 UK journalists: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...

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/9cAqOU9

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

Today we launched a report on UK journalists: who they are, how they work and what they think. 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

Interested in the state of journalism in the UK? Especially keen to hear about local UK journalism? Save the date - 1st May 6pm - when @leedsunimedia.bsky.social will host the regional launch for our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report. Registration open here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Delighted that @robynvinter.bsky.social, the North of England correspondent at @theguardian.com, is joining us as a panelist at the launch event for our major new report. Sign up via the link below to reserve your spot.

We analysed millions of visits to German & Austrian news websites' paywalls in our new study. It generated press coverage in the US & the UK but this is the 1st coverage in Germany or Austria, although the article is behind HORIZONT's paywall, appropriately: www.horizont.at/medien/news/...

What a relief to have replaced the Twitter/X feed on my website's homepage with a feed of my @bsky.app posts. It feels so much better. A 3rd party solution integrated nicely with the Contao CMS I'm using: neilthurman.com

Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? What's changed in the last decade? Our forthcoming @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report will answer these questions. Registration now open for the launch event @citystgeorges.bsky.social at 6pm, 28 April: www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Thanks to @markcoddington.bsky.social & @sethclewis.bsky.social Lewis for featuring our new study on paywalls in the latest edition of RQ1, their excellent monthly newsletter on the latest research on news and journalism: rq1.substack.com/i/156945217/...

From October, @taz.de will be the 1st national newspaper in Germany to stop printing & go online only during the week. It will retain a Saturday print edition. In 2018, Taz's MD had predicted the title would have no print edition by 2022. www.heise.de/en/news/Dail...

Thanks to Ray Snoddy for mentioning our new paywalls study in his column in the @themedialeader.bsky.social. Link to the full study here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@charlottetobitt.bsky.social covers our new paywalls study at @pressgazette.co.uk. Fully study: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We dug into millions of visits to paywalled articles at 21 news websites to see what prevented & prompted visitors starting & finishing the subscription journey.

The @niemanlab.org just published this piece on our new paywalls study. @speppered.bsky.social does a great job presenting the findings comprehensively, accurately, and with stylistic flair. Thanks Sophie! www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/less... Full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our new study on news publishers' paywall strategies is featured in this piece in @journalismnews.bsky.social. We dug deep into millions of visits to paywalled news articles on 21 news websites to find out what prompted & prevented non-subscribers starting & finishing the subscription journey.

🚨 New publication! Readers find traditionally-crafted news articles more comprehensible than articles produced with automation. However, they were equally satisfied by the automated & manually-written articles' character of writing & narrative structure & flow journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We compare audience perceptions of news videos made with various levels of AI-involvement (high, medium & none). On average consumers liked automated news videos as much as manually made ones, but only when the automation process involved human post-editing: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Bill S-210 just passed its 2nd reading in the Commons but it only targets commercial porn sites, not porn on social & search. However, our research shows that, in the UK, >50% of <18s encounter porn on social & search: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Good analysis of limitations of Netflix's recent audience data release: "[with these figures] it's almost impossible to reliably estimate the actual audience in the way we do with terrestrial TV programmes … Without further breakdowns … they only tell part of the story." www.bbc.com/news/enterta...