Journalism
Digital News Report 2025: exponential media change is here
The era of incremental media change is over, and the emerging media tsunami is upon us. It's exponential all the way from here on out.
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Finding news audiences in the social media shift
In the first of a series of pieces inspired by the 2024 Reuters Institute Digital News Report, we look at the dramatic changes happening in social and what they mean for you.
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The pandemic changed newsrooms. But did it change them the right way?
New research from the Reuters Institute shows us that newsrooms have become more flexible post-pandemic, but not how that flexibility is being used.
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Digital News Report 2023: the social challenge for audience growth
2023’s Reuters Institute Digital News Report makes for grim reading. But, for the savvy, audience-centric journalist, there’s opportunity here, too.
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Making climate crisis journalism better: the launch of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network
We need to get better at integrating the impact of the climate crisis into all our journalism. And a new initiative from the Reuters Institute should help.
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Digital News Report 2021: a good crisis for the media?
Four European journalists discuss the findings of the latest edition of the annual research into news, and how it compares with their own titles' pandemic experiences.
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When less journalism is more
The shift to digital unleashed the floodgates on a tidal wave of journalism of often variable content. And, finally, publishers are discovering that smaller amounts of more valuable work can be better.
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Digital News Report 2020: the trust crisis and its solutions
2020's edition of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report is dominated, as you would expect, with the changes wrought by the pandemic. But there's an underlying trends that's worth focusing on.
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General Election 2019: the news media failed profoundly — but not in the way you think
Reuters Institute research shows that most of what we believe about the general public and politics news is wrong — and that we are profoundly failing to engage them.
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News podcasts: profitable and engaging — but have we got the format right?
New research from the Reuters Institute suggests that publishers are waking up to the opportunity for greater audience engagement through podcasting - but are they taking the right approach?
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Engaged journalism, membership models and communities under attack: important new research from the Reuters Institute
By deeply researching the audience engagement of three news outlets under sustained assault by hostile organisations, Dr Julie Posetti and team have come up with some vital work
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Digital News Report 2019 launch: connecting with readers and building trust in news
The annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report was published today — and a panel discussed the implications for journalism of its key findings. Here's my notes.