Our article "Ritual Reinforcement: Habit, Emotion, and Identity as Attributes of Trust in News", led by the brilliant @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social, won the 2025 Bob Franklin Journal Article Award. Thanks to Amy for her outstanding work (as usual) leading this! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjo...

Young people's news habits have changed in the past 10 years, with 18-24s citing social media as their main source, compared to news websites/apps 10 years ago. IG/TikTok use for news has grown, while FB has declined dramatically. Full report: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understandin...

New report on young audiences out today with Craig T. Robertson, @mitalilive.bsky.social, and @richardfletcher.bsky.social, based on over a decade of Reuters Institute research. Key findings and links to the report in this thread.

ONLINE FIRST! This article by @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social compares inequalities in #news use in traditional offline and #online news #media environments over time among #internet users in six countries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 📖 Final output for this year: I am thrilled to present the summary report from our summer symposium "Reckoning with AI Agents", co-authored with @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social and Linda Eggert. ➡ buff.ly/Ol8Xd7P

Another thing I read recently: The AI and Journalism Research Working Group (of which my colleague @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social and I are a part), convened by the @cnti.bsky.social has synthesised findings from 55 studies to evaluate how AI transcription & translation tools are impacting journalism

Esta semana publicamos en el Instituto Reuters un informe sobre los creadores de contenido y los influencers de noticias en 24 países, incluido España. Dejo en este hilo algunas cosas que me han llamado la atención El informe completo aquí reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...

Our new report provides a typology of news creators, based on analysis of 24 countries The report, by Nic Newman, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, makes a distinction between those who focus on hard news and those touching news-adjacent topics

🚨New report out today with Nic Newman, @mitalilive.bsky.social, and @richardfletcher.bsky.social mapping out the news creator and influencer space from the vantage point of audiences across 24 countries. It includes a typology of news creators, key trends, and lists of most mentioned individuals.👇

@reutersinstitute.bsky.social New publication on the vast, and often hard to define world of news creators & influencers cross 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social me and @richardfletcher.bsky.social Our report here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...

Come work with us 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab. Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science. Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions. DL 🗓️ November 1 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🚨 NEW PIECE Most people want platforms (not governments) to be responsible for moderating content, according to a new piece from our own Craig T. Robertson, based on survey data from 8 countries that we collected in 2024 Read the piece in full buff.ly/qk8u03I 🧵 Key points and charts in thread

And finally tomorrow at 15:30: a joint paper with @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social on audiences and their views on AI-generated misinformation 🤖 ⚠️

The editorial team at @reutersinstitute.bsky.social has put together a website of our talks, featuring @waqasejaz.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social, @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, & a collab with @c3ds.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/here-ar...

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

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...

En español: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/es/digital-n...

Here are some key findings about how audiences think about news personalisation in the AI era from my chapter in the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Digital News Report 2025. 🧵 #DNR25

"When we ask audiences about their interest in options for adapting news to their needs with AI, we find relatively low interest across the board" Read @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social chapter on how audiences think about personalisation and AI #DNR25 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

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”

Today's the big day! Here is a thread with some of the key findings from our Digital News Report 2025 #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...

Very happy and honoured to have received The Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Article of the Year Award from the #ICA25 Journalism Studies division. The article was led by the amazing @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social and based on data from The Trust in News Project from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social

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

Some great five year positions at DPIR with our fantastic and diverse IR group

As an Italian and (mostly) lapsed Catholic, I really enjoyed chatting to Gian Guido Vecchi about the upcoming conclave and his job as a vaticanista, one of the small pool of reporters dedicated to following the pope full-time reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-cov...

📣 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...

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

Only 27% of the top editors across 240 major outlets in 12 markets are women, according to our new factsheet by @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social Markets covered: 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧🇧🇷🇩🇪🇫🇮 🇭🇰🇿🇦🇪🇸🇰🇪 buff.ly/PdP9oxD 🧶 Fndings in thread

Our paper (w @nadiajude.bsky.social) on Community Notes is out as part of the collection Empirical Approaches to Infrastructures for Datafication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10..... Thanks to the editors @stinelomborg.bsky.social @afrontiercity.bsky.social Jennifer Paybus and Signe Sophus Lai!

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

Here are the talks we think you shouldn't miss @journalismfestival.com this year! Featuring our own @mitalilive.bsky.social, Nic Newman, @richardfletcher.bsky.social and @felixsimon.bsky.social as well as many others reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/interna...

New article led by the brilliant @camilambpp.bsky.social looking at audience preferences on impartiality across 40 markets. Details here:

This week, my colleagues and I organised an event on AI and news, where we brought together some of our researchers and colleagues from the university and the news industry. Thanks to our fabulous comms team, there is a full write-up: buff.ly/aSqGvFq Some reflections…

We are now back for the afternoon session of our event on AI and the Future of News We'll hear from @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @nathaliem.bsky.social @lizlohn.bsky.social @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com and others Watch live in the link below reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/ai-...

Happening now!

Last call to sign up for the AI and the Future of News 2025 conference, which is tomorrow. Details on the programme and how to join online below

A grim factsheet on race & leadership in the news media. The biggest year on year decrease in %age of top editors of colour since we started tracking this in 2020. Led by @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social and co-authored by @rasmuskleis.bsky.social and me. #journalism #factsheet #diversity

New factsheet with @mitalilive.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social looking at race and leadership across 100 news outlets in 🇧🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧 🇺🇸🇿🇦 We find people of colour are significantly underrepresented among top editors and the overall % has decreased.👇 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/race-and-lea...

🚨 NEW RESEARCH None of the top editors in 🇧🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧 are people of colour, according to our annual factsheet on race and leadership in the news media by @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social #IWgR25 Read it here buff.ly/tmZjUYT Findings in thread

6️⃣ Throughout the day we'll be hearing from our own researchers @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social, who will present key findings from our work on AI and the future of news buff.ly/dEmIIrg

🚨 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT On Weds 26 March we'll be hosting AI and the Future of News 2025, a one-day conference featuring presentations and panel discussions with journalists and experts from around the world 🧵 Programme and speakers in thread 👉 Sign up now for join us online buff.ly/dEmIIrg

Y aquí puedes leer en español el discurso tan relevante de @jelaniya.bsky.social en @reutersinstitute.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/texto-d...

This is worth reading if you’re interested in deep research AI tools: “Used uncritically, AI research assistants risk perpetuating a cycle where only easily discoverable sources are read and cited in research products” theimportantwork.substack.com/p/why-ai-ass...

Only 27% of the top editors across 240 major outlets in 12 markets are women, according to our new factsheet by @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social Markets covered: 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧🇧🇷🇩🇪🇫🇮 🇭🇰🇿🇦🇪🇸🇰🇪 buff.ly/PdP9oxD 🧶 Key findings in thread

And here is a thread by the main author on the Reuters Institute’s latest work on gender diversity in top news positions — give @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social a follow, too

Proud to have co-authored our factsheet on women & leadership in the news with @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social . Deep-seated structural inequalities don't disappear on their own. The current political environment makes it difficult, perhaps even dangerous to address this.

Aquí nuestro informe anual sobre liderazgo de mujeres en medios, liderado por @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social. El informe incluye 12 países, entre ellos España, donde el 75% de los directores siguen siendo hombres y donde apenas vemos progreso reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/es/mujeres-y...

Only 27% of the top editors across 240 major outlets in 12 markets are women, according to our new factsheet by @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social Markets covered: 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧🇧🇷🇩🇪🇫🇮 🇭🇰🇿🇦🇪🇸🇰🇪 buff.ly/PdP9oxD 🧶 Fndings in thread