How do people use AI for news & other purposes? This is the question at the heart of our new report Authored by Felix Simon, Rasmus Nielsen and Richard Fletcher, the report looks at this issue with fresh data from 9 countries 7 findings in thread reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/generative-a...

🚨✨ Publication alert: How do people in nine countries (🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇦🇷 🇩🇰 🇯🇵🇦🇺🇳🇴🇫🇮) use AI and think about it in the context of information, news, and institutions? Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social survey research (n= 18,921) with @richardfletcher.bsky.social & @rasmuskleis.bsky.social addresses this & more

We are thrilled to welcome our new Fellows: 🇯🇴🇦🇺 Khaled Al Khawaldeh 🇫🇮 Tatu Blomqvist 🇯🇲 Carol Francis 🇸🇬 Magdalene Fung 🇪🇸 María de la Iglesia 🇺🇸 Natalie Jonas 🇺🇸 Mamatjan Juma 🇸🇬 Michelle Martin 🇦🇹 Florian Schmidt Click for bios and projects reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/nine-jo...

Nine journalists are joining the Reuters Institute's fellowship programme in October 2026

Our first cohort of the academic year will explore the future of journalism through a programme of seminars, events and a personal project.

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Interested in, or already using (for academic or industry research) digital twins? In this analysis, digital twins' responses "correlate weakly [0.20] with human responses". Not nothing but.. not great if goal is reliable knowledge or basis for consequential decisions www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How do people define what is and is not news? In a new article led by Tali Aharoni based on analysis of 8 chat-based focus groups and 162 in-depth interviews, we document how not all journalism is seen as news, and not everything people call “news” is journalistic www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Having Fun and Learning Something”: How Users in Four Countries Define What News Is – and Is Not

News categorizations are embedded in daily media routines. While research often relies on professional and academic definitions, users may have different understandings of what constitutes “news.” ...

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My latest for @economist.com: AI writing is taking over politics. 10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada. Link: www.economist.com/britain/202... And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders

Excited to share our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report with @waqasejaz.bsky.social @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social looking at how audiences define news in today's digital environment: What counts as news, and what doesn't across six countreis 🇦🇷🇯🇵🇳🇴🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸 👇

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Out today. Our new report looks at how people define news, how that's changing and the factors shaping these changes. Some key findings in thread. It's based on: 1. media diaries and in-depth interviews in 🇦🇷 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 2. online surveys in 🇦🇷 🇯🇵 🇳🇴 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/changing-def...

Out today. Our new report looks at how people define news, how that's changing and the factors shaping these changes. Some key findings in thread. It's based on: 1. media diaries and in-depth interviews in 🇦🇷 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 2. online surveys in 🇦🇷 🇯🇵 🇳🇴 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/changing-def...

A string of colleagues and collaborators presenting various work in progress at ECREA today, first up @richardfletcher.bsky.social with “Investigating the impact of AI-rewritten news articles on reader engagement, comprehension, and interest across six countries” (12:30 - 12:45, FSS | P31) 1/2

While I cannot be at @ecreaeu.bsky.social this year to co-present, please check out our AI work presented by great colleagues @richardfletcher.bsky.social, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social and @waqasejaz.bsky.social.

Across half a century and countries accounting for 3/4 of the world's population, majority trust in news is the exception, not the rule. Trust has declined over time, and the decline has accelerated. All that and more from @richardfletcher.bsky.social and I here www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Feeling very happy that the new book "Mainstream news media trust. Antecedents, consequences, and remedies", edited together with @naylafawzi.bsky.social and @yarivtsfati.bsky.social, has now been published! The book is Open Access and can be downloaded at www.routledge.com/Mainstream-N...

Mainstream News Media Trust: Antecedents, Consequences, and Remedies

Bringing together some of the foremost scholars in the field, this book offers a critical introduction to mainstream news media (dis)trust and its social and political conditions and consequences. Dra...

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What do we know about news media trust today and what might a research agenda to advance our understanding in the future look like? Terrific new edited book by @naylafawzi.bsky.social, @jesperstromback.bsky.social & @yarivtsfati.bsky.social in open access here www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Mainstream News Media Trust | Antecedents, Consequences, and Remedies

Bringing together some of the foremost scholars in the field, this book offers a critical introduction to mainstream news media (dis)trust and its social and

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I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.

This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)

Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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🚨New Science Advances🚨 Untrustworthy sources on Facebook and Instagram in 2020: Concentrated exposure but no attitudinal effects www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... -Exposure very low but highly concentrated -Reducing exposure by ~70% for months had no measurable effects *even among frequent consumers*

Traditional sources have seen a significant decline in news use in recent years. This chapter from @richardfletcher.bsky.social looks at the reasons behind this disengagement, which are different for newspapers, TV and radio news Click to read buff.ly/cDt240f

The different reasons why television, newspapers, and radio are losing their news audiences

Almost all markets we cover in the Digital News Report survey have seen a decline in the use of offline news sources in the last decade. Printed newspapers, radio, and television have all experienced…

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The last moments of Radio 4 Long Wave this morning. More about the switch off here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off

But campaigners want the LW masts in Worcestershire to be given listed status.

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Al Ryan@alryanradio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The end of an era - After almost a century we said goodbye this morning to our great companion of the airwaves Radio 4 198 LW. I shall miss her warmth and crackle. Here’s the final sign off at the end of #theshippingforecast before she fell silent… ❤️

My chapter in this year's @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Digital News Report looks at the different reasons why the news audiences for radio, TV, and newspapers are shrinking.

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

Traditional sources have seen a significant decline in news use in recent years. This chapter from @richardfletcher.bsky.social looks at the reasons behind this disengagement, which are different for newspapers, TV and radio news Click to read reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

New data on the efficacy of the Australia social media ban are worse than I thought. A new study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reports that over 85% of teens under 16 are still using social media. The 'friction' introduced by the ban seems very minimal. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Nearly half of @reutersinstitute.bsky.social DNR respondents say they prefer getting news from sources that don’t have a particular point of view. But can public demand for impartial news survive platforms and polarization? Read my chapter here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

🚨 Our Digital News Report 2026 is out! Authored by Jim Egan, Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Nic Newman, Rasmus Nielsen, Mitali Mukherjee and Richard Fletcher, it is based on 100K interviews in 48 markets Full report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news... 7 findings in thread

We will publish the 2026 Reuters Institute Digital News Report next week. Details here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/digital...

The Digital News Report 2026 will be published on Tuesday 16 June

This year’s report covers 48 markets and features a new interactive allowing users to compare figures from across countries and demographics.

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Interview research from 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧finds concerns over AI-generated misinfo drive "indexical discounting" eroding realism heuristic, many want systemic remedies. @richardfletcher.bsky.social presents work led by @felixsimon.bsky.social @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social at #ICA26 Preprint osf.io/preprints/so...

Call me old fashioned, but I think that multiple choice survey items designed to measure someone’s knowledge of an area should contain 1 unambiguously correct answer and 3 unambiguously wrong ones – not 3 that are sort of right and 1 that’s mostly likely to be the one the researchers picked.

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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When the value of an activity comes from peer participation, bans only work if enough peers comply. Research suggests this isn't happening with the new Australian social media ban, from Bursztyn, Duckworth, Jiménez-Durán, Leonard, Milojević, Roth, and Sunstein www.nber.org/papers/w35162

🎙Today we published a new report authored by Nic Newman exploring the changing nature of news podcasting. It looks at the shift from narrative to conversational podcasts, what's driving a pivot to video, monetisation and more. Find it here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/changing-sha...

Stunning footage from a beautiful #MayDay 🌅 🎬 Instagram | UmairAtOxford

Back to one of my regular moans about democracy measurement - present bias. According to VDEM the UK's 'level of liberal democracy' is now lower than any time since 1945 - a period of time in which business owners and graduates had multiple votes and during which the Troubles occurred. WRONG.