⏯️Watch back our series of #RISJWebinars where our team of experts and colleagues presented findings from their research looking at audience trends, business models, engaging content and the impact of COVID-19 on the news media.
🧵Play them back on YouTube in the thread below.
On the week of the UK lockdown @rasmus_kleis presented data on how audiences engage with news to consider how people might inform themselves about the emerging coronavirus pandemic.
📡Research Fellow @annisch shared her findings on public service media and how these outlets were responding to the pandemic.
😐Only 23% of the top editors across 200 major outlets in our sample are women, despite the fact that, on average, 40% of journalists in the ten markets are women.
@MeeraSelva1 presents research into the no. of women in leadership roles in 10 markets.
Our first major piece of research into coronavirus and the news looked at audiences in 🇦🇷🇩🇪🇰🇷🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
News use had gone up but those with less formal education relied more on social media/messaging apps.
@rasmus_kleis presented findings:
✅English language fact-checks went up by >900% between January and March, according to research by Scott Brennen.
20% of pandemic misinformation came from celebs/politicians/public figures, but accounted for 69% of total social media engagement.
🎙️@nicnewman looked at how publishers are engaging new audiences through news podcasts which account for 6% of total podcasts but 21% of those in the US top 250.
He shared how the pandemic has changed publishing strategies and listening trends.
🚨Emergency legislation
🛑Travel restrictions
📝Unpatriotic reporting
🧑⚖️Misinformation laws
🗣️Eroding source protection
Some of the uses and abuses of laws used to attack the press that @MeeraSelva1 found the pandemic has accelerated.
↔️ @dragz looked at left/right polarisation of perspectives around the news media's coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.
🧮Denise Lievesley delivered a masterclass for journalists on statistics: their importance for democracy, knowing what statistics to trust and differing quality in statistics.
🌆Research associate @joyjenkins shared her research into how local and regional news outlets around the world are trying to build sustainable revenue streams and trust, and how COVID-19 is exerting more pressure on business models.
🗳️@silviamajo presented research looking at fragmentation in online news and the extent to which audiences of particular news brands also consume content from other news brands. She looks at trends in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇸🇮🇳🇫🇷 during election years.
🌏Research Fellow @simgandi discussed findings from the #DNR20 about how people consume news about climate change, differing levels of concern by country, sources of news, and attitudes towards media coverage of the issue.
📨Senior Research Associate @nicnewman looked at how news publishers are building habit and engagement among their audiences through content such as newsletters and podcasts.
🗞️In the last of our #RISJWebinars @annisch looked at how local and regional news is valued across different countries, what sources of local news people prefer and the impact of COVID-19 on local publishers.
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