@amyrossarguedas.bsky.social from the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social says more people are using AI chatbots to get their news reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

Emerging uses of AI chatbots for news and what it means for journalism

The rapid rise of generative AI has become a growing focus for journalism, as publishers and platforms grapple with what it means for how people access and engage with news. Much of the attention has ...

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✨ 🤖 A brief summary of the AI findings of the Digital News Report 2026, a 48-country survey of news use and attitudes, now out by the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social.

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...

2025 Bob Franklin Journal Article Award

Explore the article collection: 2025 Bob Franklin Journal Article Award. Published in Journalism Studies.

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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.

Reuters Institute@reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today we published a report on younger news audiences. Authored by Craig T. Robertson, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it's based on DNR and other surveys Full report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understandin... Seven findings in 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....

Inequalities in Offline and Online News Media Environments Across Six Countries: The Role of Social Class and Interest in News

In this article, we present a comparative analysis of inequalities in online and offline news media systems across a strategic sample of six countries. Using survey data from 10 annual Digital News...

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🚨 📖 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

AI Transcription and Translation in Journalism

Working Group Briefing #2: November 2025

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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...

Mapping news creators and influencers in social and video networks

A report by Nic Newman, Amy Ross Arguedas, Mitali Mukherjee and Richard Fletcher.

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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.👇

Reuters Institute@reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country 📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj 🧵6 findings in thread

@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...

Mapping news creators and influencers

This report, authored by Nic Newman, Amy Ross Arguedas, Mitali Mukherjee and Richard Fletcher, shows how the trend towards news influencers is developing in 24 countries.

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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...

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab

Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

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🚨 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...

Here are the papers at the Future of Journalism Conference 2025 presented by Reuters Institute researchers

The presented research focuses on AI's role in misinformation and elections, how it can be used to illustrate climate news, and the effects of exposure to news about climate protests

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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...

AI-personalized news takes new forms (but do readers want it?)

Many outlets have been personalizing news recommendations for years, but generative AI introduces the possibility to personalize news formats.

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Cómo piensan las audiencias en la personalización de las noticias en la era de la IA

Este capítulo explora las actitudes de la audiencia hacia la personalización de noticias y el interés por diferentes tipos de personalización con IA.

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Amy Ross Arguedas@amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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

How audiences think about news personalisation in the AI era

This chapter explores audience attitudes towards news personalisation and public interest in different types of AI-driven news personalisation.

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"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...

How audiences think about news personalisation in the AI era

This chapter explores audience attitudes towards news personalisation and public interest in different types of AI-driven news personalisation.

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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”

Reuters Institute@reutersinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Today's the big day! Here is a thread with some of the key findings from our Digital News Report 2025 #DNR25

Reuters Institute@reutersinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Reuters Institute researchers receive major awards for work broadening understanding of trust in news

Our colleagues and former staff received the awards at the International Communication Association's annual conference in Denver (United States).

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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...

Reuters Institute researchers receive major awards for work broadening understanding of trust in news

Our colleagues and former staff received the awards at the International Communication Association's annual conference in Denver (United States).

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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

Here are the panels, presentations and posters at ICA 2025 featuring researchers from the Reuters Institute

The annual gathering will see our researchers share findings around generative AI, climate news and trust.

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

Patricia Owens@whitproject.bsky.social · last yr.

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford. One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

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...

How to cover the conclave: insights on the pope’s election from one of the world's leading experts

“You can’t approach it as you would approach a political election. The patterns are just different,” says Corriere della Sera’s Gian Guido Vecchi. Lee este artículo en español

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📣 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...