Our new report out today by @waqasejaz.bsky.social, @mitalilive.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social looks at how audiences in 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 consume news and information about climate change. 💻 Report: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/climate-chan... 🧵 Some key findings below.

New OCJN report with @mitalilive.bsky.social & @richardfletcher.bsky.social out today tracking climate news consumption across 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸. Last year we found a y-o-y decline in climate news use only in 🇺🇸. Worryingly, it’s now spread to 5/8 countries. What’s going on? A thread 🧵

Research by our own @waqasejaz.bsky.social and others proves that climate journalism truly matters. Drawing on online survey data from 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇳🇯🇵🇵🇰🇬🇧🇺🇸 they show that mainstream news use is consistently associated with pro-climate behavioural intentions (using less energy, flying less often)

New Paper Alert 🧵📣 There is a growing concern that the negative valence in climate stories paralyses consumers & perhaps even prevents them from taking pro-environmental actions. However, we found that climate anxiety is a robust and universal driver of pro-climate behavioral intentions.👇

A thread on how people's use of generative AI has changed in the last year - based on survey data from 6 countries (🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇰🇯🇵🇦🇷 ). First, gen AI use has grown rapidly. Most people have tried out gen AI at least once (61%), and 34% now use it on a weekly basis - roughly doubling from 18% a year ago.

New paper on news avoidance around climate change, based on data from 8 countries. We aim to add a bit of nuance to what we already know about news avoidance in general, particularly on the association between avoidance and specific emotional responses to climate news. doi.org/10.1177/1464...

🚨✨ Publication alert: How do people in 6 countries (🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇦🇷 🇩🇰 🇯🇵 ) use AI 🤖 and think about it in the context of information, news, and institutions? Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social survey research (n ≈ 12,000) with @richardfletcher.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social explores this.

How do people use generative AI in their daily lives? And how do they use it for news? These are two of the questions we explore in a new report, based on fresh survey data from 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸 🔗 Full report buff.ly/mv3Jc5r 🧵 Key findings in thread

We’re told doom & gloom 📰 makes people avoid climate news. Turns out… not really. 😟 Worry doesn’t push people away. 😡 Fear, anger, stress? Mostly irrelevant — except in India & Japan. A little climate anxiety might actually keep people engaged. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849251381613

What if the bigger problem isn’t people who are climate sceptics but systems that don’t care what the majority believe or want? Wrote a piece on it arguing the real blockages lie in politics, power, and policy not in public scepticism. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Also this chart from our report led by @waqasejaz.bsky.social Read the report in full here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/climate-chan...

Panelists: - @waqasejaz.bsky.social, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute's Oxford Climate Journalism Network - ‪@gingerzee.bsky.social‬, Chief Meteorologist & Chief Climate Correspondent, ABC News RSVP here: coveringclimatenow.org/event/talkin...

Big day for us at Reuters whenever we publish our annual report & every year it comes at a time when it is so consequential for making sense of our information ecosystem. Always a pleasure seeing it develop throughout the year & some really smart ppl doing absolutely fantastic job on it. Thank you:)

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 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇰🇦🇷🇯🇵🇫🇷

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.

If you're at #ICA25 in Denver some of our researchers inc. @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @waqasejaz.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social and Tali Aharoni will be sharing their latest findings on subjects including attitudes to AI, news and climate, and trust in news. buff.ly/UHFkdTz

I am all for freedom of expression etc etc but when you give platform & 3:41 mins to someone peddling anti-democratic, autocratic BS with no opposing view while headlining him "inspiring" - Can’t help but wonder if “bothsidesism” is just for when it’s convenient? 🤔 edition.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

BREAKING: "Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029." #ICA25

We are thrilled to announce that @mitalilive.bsky.social has been appointed Director of the Reuters Institute. Mukherjee, who has been Acting Director since last October, was selected in an open process that concluded in late March Read our full announcement buff.ly/1beGPME Details in thread

Climate change news use also declined in the US in 2024, as we documented in our latest @reutersinstitute.bsky.social ‘Climate Change and News Audiences’ report. More here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/climate-chan...

We are thrilled to announce that Jim Egan has been selected as the next lead author of the Digital News Report. He will support the current author, Nic Newman, through this year's process before taking the lead role in autumn 2025 Details in thread Full announcement here buff.ly/L2oVph9

The data from this report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @shannimcg.bsky.social on the role of platforms in 8 countries is now available on our website. Click 'Download the data' and see what you can find! See the thread below for a taste of the what's inside.

The data we collected to understand people's views on individual digital platform across 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 is now publicly available for any1 interested to explore it further by clicking "Download the data". I promise there is still a lot to unpack. Following thread gives you a glimpse of what we covered.

Had great time sharing insights from our OCJN work about climate activism, news media, and climate politics with Jacob for his new podcast @journalismnews.bsky.social www.journalism.co.uk/podcast/repo...

Where I come from, these things are quite normal, in fact, I anticipate someone's illegal 'disappearence' when he/she speaks out, because dictators have normalised this for us but seeing it happening in US surprises me. Don't let him normalise this for you: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

New publication out today!

People are increasingly engaging with news on social media, including extreme weather events. How can they sort valuable from misleading narratives? @marinaadami.bsky.social spoke to @meghier.bsky.social @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social and Lanre Olagunju

Our recent report on climate change was featured among these five, with a great summary of our findings. Check it out here: www.journalism.co.uk/news/journal... Thank you @journalismnews.bsky.social

Join our online event to learn about how people receive and perceive climate news. 🗨️ With @waqasejaz.bsky.social @katherinedunn.bsky.social @ivancouronne.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social 🗓️ Weds 5 Feb 14:00 (UK time) 🔗 Register here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/thr...

How audiences follow news on climate change? This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG 7 findings in thread

Pub alert 📣🤩 Our latest climate change & news audiences report is out, with insights from 3yrs of survey data across 8 countries. Despite the worsening climate crisis, climate news consumption & attitudes have remained remarkably stable - a pattern we term "climate perception inertia." For more👇

As part of our recent report on digital platforms, we asked people in eight countries whether they trusted different types of digital platforms for news about politics. Here's a thread with four findings from the report Read it in full here https://buff.ly/3VykaDY

🚨 We are thrilled to present the 7th cohort of our Oxford Climate Journalism Network It includes 34 men and 66 women from dozens of countries and territories. The new members of our climate network will join us in January Check out our new members reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/members-oxfo...

We asked people in 8 countries 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 how they use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find overall platform ambivalence - people use platforms for news & info about politics, but they're also skeptical of the information they see there. 1/

huge thank you to the amazing folks I was lucky to work with @waqasejaz.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social Also huge thank you to @knightfdn.bsky.social for funding this work! You can find the whole report here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-peop...

Honoured to deliver my first-ever keynote at the inaugural Regional ICA Conference on Climate Change Communication, hosted by Forman Christian College, and share insights from my work with @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. Looking forward to introspective yet engaging conversations.

Not surprise! Because in our report we found the same. Among 8 countries, Germany was the only exception where ppl feel social media has net -ive impact on them & society. So, I am not surprised others are finding their willingness to such restrictions on social media. www.dw.com/en/most-in-g...

The use of news outlets and the use of digital platforms to get news and information are highly intertwined, not an either/or. Interesting new study on what people want ⁦‪@reutersinstitute.bsky.social

Taking a single issue - polarization - we ask people what institutions they, on balance, feel do bring us together and which divide us. Again, social media are seen differently from other platforms - but news media, journalists, and politicians are seen as far more divisive 4/5

📢In our new report, co-authored with @richardfletcher.bsky.social, @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social, we examine how people in🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find evidence of ‘platform ambivalence’, and a lot more (1/5).

In report led by @waqasejaz.bsky.social we document "platform ambivalence"–people rely on platforms for info, while also remaining sceptical, many concerns are widespread, even as people also appreciate a range of personal and societal benefits reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-peop... 1/5

On Thursday we'll publish a report on attitudes towards platforms, authored by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @shannimcg.bsky.social sky.social and funded by @knightfdn.bsky.social Join our newsletter now politics.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

A growing number of my @reutersinstitute.bsky.social colleagues are on Bluesky. Find them here for the latest on all things news-research go.bsky.app/38bqLWZ

Absolute essential read for anyone interested in news media and trust. Robust, thorough, and clear by a stellar team.

This is what policy failure looks like. On one hand, multilateral agencies, scientists, and every1 generally keep pushing ppl to use renewables, specially in LMIC, and when they do they can't reap the benefits they were promised. Nonetheless, I take this as a win! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We are looking for a new lead author of the Digital News Report. See below for details. Thanks to Nic Newman who has done a fantastic job steering the report for the last 10 years.

Fantastic opportunity to work with a great team on a fantastic project.

Starting the day with an office view like this? No complaints! ❄️✨

It's been few days since COP29 started & I have yet to see anything +ive about it. It is increasingly being seen as irrelevant, devoid of "real-action", high-school renuion of lobbyists (1700+ attending this year🤯), and head of states who barely has skin in the game. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...