The incentive structure around grounding AI outputs on real-time issues looks busted, and various forms of PR may increasingly drown out news if incentives for publishers remain unclear. Where are we heading? I've tried to sketch out possible future scenarios rasmuskleisnielsen.net/2026/07/07/h...

How might the incentives for (news) content to ground AI output on real-time related issues evolve?

The incentive structure around grounding AI outputs on real-time related issues looks busted, and PR and other forms of strategic communication may increasingly drown out news content if the incent…

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What is the 'public test' for AI use in news media? What is the difference between resigned, furtive, romantic, and modernist responses to AI in journalism? All that and more in my Nordic AI Journalism #NAMS2026 summit closing keynote, transcript + video here rasmuskleisnielsen.net/2026/06/22/w...

What’s in it for me (as a member of the public)? A ‘public test’ for AI in news

I gave the closing talk at the Nordic AI in Media Summit 2026 May 27 – 28th Copenhagen, Denmark. It is an incredible event, and it was a privilege to be part of it. A video of my talk is here…

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No notes. This is an excellent opportunity for Early Career scholars with an interest in platform studies.

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Come work with us! Two-year postdoc at the Department of Communication at U of Copenhagen Join a world-class public research university with international colleagues in a city ranked high on quality of life Starting salary €63k/$70k+pension Apply by August 2 Link jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Come work with us! Two-year postdoc at the Department of Communication at U of Copenhagen Join a world-class public research university with international colleagues in a city ranked high on quality of life Starting salary €63k/$70k+pension Apply by August 2 Link jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Postdoctoral position in platform studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

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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...

“Trust in news and the information environment is going down”, Jim Egan says, but in many cases “trust in news organisations appears to be holding up as brands” #DNR26 podcast with him, @mitalilive.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-pod...

Our podcast: Digital News Report 2026. Episode 1: What you need to know

In this episode we explore how people are consume news in 2026, the role of platforms, levels of trust and interest, AI chatbots, news influencers and more.

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Our book The Brussels Bubble: Inside the European Union in the Digital Age with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org is out now OPEN ACCESS! We take you on an ethnographic journey behind the scenes of multilateralism, from Brexit to COVID-19 to Russia's war on Ukraine 👉 Find it here: tinyurl.com/m237ry4b

Mass offerings "are harder to do because you can get anything that you want and a much deeper version of it online” Simon Robinson says at the London launch of #DNR26, featuring debate with @mitalilive.bsky.social, Emily Kent Smith, and Kamal Ahmed reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/we-need...

“We need to rethink what news is” – Our panel on building and keeping audience relationships

A summary of our Digital News Report global launch with Simon Robinson from Reuters, Emily Kent Smith from Goalhanger and Kamal Ahmed from Fortune

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It's that time of year again: @reutersinstitute.bsky.social has put out its 2026 Digital News Report. Our team broke down some key findings — including how people continue to abandon news sites and apps in favor of social media and, increasingly, chatbots to get their news. buff.ly/ahksode

News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media

Facebook for news is on the rebound, impartial news isn't dead, and other findings from RISJ's 2026 Digital News Report

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The 2026 Digital News Report is out, led by Jim Egan and the team at the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. For the first time this year, social media and video networks are, on average across the markets covered, more popular than both TV and owned news websites and apps as sources of news. 1/5

🚨 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

Truly honoured that my book ‘Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful’ won 2 awards @ the #ICA26 conference: the 2026 Outstanding Book Award of @icahdq.bsky.social & the 2026 Philosophy, Theory and Critique Best Book Award. Grateful to nominators & committee members for the recognition

Here @deeliu97.bsky.social at #ICA26 presenting work we did with Emillie de Keulenaar mapping civil society actors engaged in platform governance, preliminary coding of thousands of orgs identify distinct styles of engagement, an evolving population, and areas where CSAs have different priorities

I don't normally advertise each panel, but this is a special one. If you're around #ICA26 at noon today, please come join @acsj-ica.bsky.social panel on reflecting on activism/activist scholarship at ICA as a one-year-old division 🥳

Hi #ica26, me again! If you are in #PolComm and Europe, the ECREA PolComm Section is accepting applications for a new management team. Please consider applying and share with your colleagues. Meet me at ICA PolComm reception tonight if you wanna know more! ecreapoliticalcommunication.com/calls/

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Call for Applications: ECREA Political Communication Section Management Team (2026–2028) The ECREA Political Communication Section is inviting applications for a new Section Management Team. After …

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"I was born for the second time when the Iron Curtain was lifted in 1989" @thanitzsch.bsky.social says in personal and profoundly important Presidential Address on academic freedom at #ICA26, noting attacks in his native Germany as well as the US, Hong Kong, destruction in Gaza, and many other cases

Even before GenAI, peer review is struggling @zizip.bsky.social suggests, says * quantity of submissions⬆️, quality⬇️ * hard to find reviewers * many poor reviews * increasingly superficial scholarly conversations Stark discussions at #ICA26 panel on "Rethinking Academic Publishing" with top editors

#ICA26 time is awards time. Congratulations to all journalism studies winners. As I have a special place in my ❤️ for books an extra shout-out to "In the Shadow of the Global North" by J. Siguru Wahutu share.google/HKqSercbP0Ly... "The New Censorship" by Ayala Panievsky share.google/wkLE62YxaUi3...

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...

Power (esp. state), institutional ("games" scholars navigate, including cross-disiplinary translation in university decision-making), and inner vulnerabilities (motivation as scholarship is treated as calling, career, commodity) - Fen Lin offer a way to think about academic vulnerabilities at #ICA26

“It is one thing to talk about inequality. It is something else to do something about it” @mkraidy.bsky.social says as #ICAA26 kicks off with opening plenary on 'Inequalities and Knowledge Production in Communication', also featuring Ingrid Bachmann, Tanja Bosch, Nicholas Bowman and Aliaa ElShabassy

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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The digital news media environment does not only reproduce old class structures. It reinforces them That is the key finding in new paper led by @antoniskalog.bsky.social analyzing social inequalities in offline and online news use across 6 countries over 10 years www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"What do you do in a world where the technology never centers you, the platforms never pay you, and there is no guarantee of visibility? Many newsrooms in the Global Majority have been living in this world for years" @jaemark.co writes, others could learn from them. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/as-a...

As AI sharpens media’s class divide, lessons from the global majority

"Perhaps it's time to look to organizations that have long been working at the margins as operating models in a more constrained future."

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“Users don't want more control over their own experience. [They] want to have control over the experience of others [so] no matter how much content moderation I offer, and customize, and add different layers to, they're unlikely to be satisfied.” Sharp observation from @aaron.bsky.team #PlatGovNet

New report out on use of and perception of generative AI in Denmark, documenting rapid growth in use, more optimism than pessimism, but very differentiated expectations across different sector - with reservations about AI use by public authorities, media, politicians caisa.dk/forskning/ge...

“Over-moderation [by platforms designated under the DSA] may negatively affect civic discourse and create risks of negative effects on the fundamental right to freedom of expression and information.” That’s not a quote from J.D. Vance or Elon Musk. It is a quote from an EU report 1/5

Content moderation may be basically “unsolvable from a centralized standpoint, because there's no agreement on what is the problem for which [it] would be the solution. The way we deal with this at Reddit is by devolving the authority to take down content to the users”. Jessica Ashooh/PlatGovNet2025

Anyone interested in platform & AI governance check out the third annual PlatGov conference Mon/Tue - all online, free & truly global 🌍🌎🌏⌨️💽🤓 Here’s the program: platgov.net/assets/site/...

This Thanksgiving, professionally, I’m thankful for the opportunity to join the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at @harvard.edu as a Faculty Affiliate shorensteincenter.org/person/rasmu...

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen - The Shorenstein Center

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