Out now – our #FutureOfNews report calls for: 📺Improvements from broadcasters 📚New rules on AI & copyright 📱Curb big tech influence 🖋️Tax breaks for local journalism ✔️Protect media independence Full report: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldse…

Analysing survey data from more than half a million people across 46 countries Richard Fletcher et al have produced an important new study showing a greater reliance on social media than TV helps explain why fewer people trust news: academic.oup.com/joc/advance-ar… 👏

Has structural change in the media environment – rise of platforms and decline of offline media – contributed to eroding trust in news? In new piece of research led by Richard Fletcher, we show it has, highlighting decline of TV and the rise of social academic.oup.com/joc/advance-ar… 1/4

🚨On Thursday we'll publish a new report on attitudes towards platforms. It's authored by Waqas Ejaz, PhD📊 Richard Fletcher Rasmus Kleis Nielsen @shannimcgm, and funded by Knight Foundation If you don't want to miss anything of what we do, join our newsletter now politics.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=60…

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

New report on what people in 8 countries think about platforms and the public sphere. We find evidence for ‘platform ambivalence’. People recognise that social, search, etc. have some benefits, but when it comes to politics they also have drawbacks - but they use them anyway.

📢In our new report, co-authored with Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, & Shannon McGregor, PhD, we examine how people in🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find evidence of ‘platform ambivalence’. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-people… (1/5)

Pleased to be delivering the keynote at the inaugural Regional ICA Conference on Climate Change Communication, hosted by @fccollege, drawing on Reuters Institute work. A unique privilege to address an audience that includes those I have learned, and still learn, from.

Most people are cynical about digital platforms as a source of news about politics, according to new research from Reuters Institute: ow.ly/qWPf50UiNPS

Nice summary of our latest article on the link between changing media use and trust in news across 46 countries. Article: doi.org/10.1093/joc/jq…

NEW on our website A piece from our own Richard Fletcher on how AI can help journalists rebuild a fraying connection with their audiences. Adapted from his recent speech at the Lorenzo Natali Prize award ceremony reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-ai-ca…

🚨 What trends will be shaping #journalism in 2025? This is the question at the heart of our yearly report on media trends by nicnewman & Federica Cherubini and based on a survey of 326 managers from 51 countries 9 findings and link in thread

How audiences follow news on climate change? This is the question at the heart of a new report by waqas ejaz Mitali Mukherjee Richard Fletcher based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Read here: buff.ly/4jwvTNG 7 findings in thread

The level of global public concern over climate change has plateaued despite the increasing urgency of the crisis, according to the findings of Reuters Institute’s latest report - Climate Change and News Audiences 2024 - released today: ow.ly/O9Hl50UOx61

New JoC Pub: “The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries”, by Richard Fletcher Simge Andi Sumitra Badrinathan Kirsten Eddy, Ph.D. Antonis Kalogeropoulos is inactive on X Camila Mont’Alverne Robertson Amy Ross Arguedas Anne Schulz - @[email protected] Benjamin Toff Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/jq…

Today we published a report on UK journalists: who they are, how they work and what they think. Edited by Neil Thurman, Imke Henkel, Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri & Richard Fletcher, it's based on a 2023 representative survey 📱Read it buff.ly/gIBRL1f 🧵Findings in thread

Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? And how has all this changed in the last decade? Our new Reuters Institute (RISJ) report answers these questions. The report is based on our representative survey of 1130 UK journalists: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalists…

At the International Communication Association #ICA25 conference, though admittedly only in spirit. Proud to be working with co-authors on two pieces of work presented there, one led by Richard Fletcher on what shapes public attitudes to AI in news and one led by Tali aharoni on trust.

If you're at #ICA25 in Denver some of our researchers inc. Richard Fletcher Amy Ross Arguedas Tali aharoni Waqas Ejaz, PhD📊 will be there sharing the latest findings from their research including attitudes to AI, news and climate, and trust in news. buff.ly/UHFkdTz

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