📽️Watch back our weekly webinar series led by our researchers sharing the latest insights on news and journalism, including the impact of the #COVID19 pandemic.
Links to the full presentations and Q&A on YouTube in the the thread below 👇
🌍We kicked off our weekly series with RISJ Director @rasmus_kleis on how people around the world access news and stay informed about coronavirus and the response to the pandemic
🎙️Many public service media across the world have met the challenge to keep their audiences informed with clarity and innovation. Research Fellow @annisch outlined her findings building on her report on the reach of public broadcasters across Europe.
♀️There is a strong positive correlation between the no. of female top editors and the % of women working in journalism according to research co-authored by @MeeraSelva1. She presented her findings on the no. of women in top editorial roles in 10 markets.
Director of the RISJ @rasmus_kleis discussed new research into how people in 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇦🇷🇰🇷🇩🇪 are accessing news about coronavirus, who they trust to stay informed and how these trends differ by age, education and political viewpoint.
🤔The coronavirus pandemic has led to an outbreak of misinformation. Research Fellow @jsbrennen looked at 225 false claims about COVID-19 including their prevalence, who’s sharing them and what platforms have done to curb them.
🎙️News podcasts have gained more listeners than other genres in 2020. Senior Research Associate @nicnewman highlights some of the best examples and how changes to commuting and working are affecting listening patterns.
✊Many governments are abusing lockdown rules to #pressfreedom. Director of the Journalist Fellowship Programme @MeeraSelva1 outlines these new threats. Journalist Fellows and others join in to share their on-the-ground perspectives.
📝Stay informed about the impact of coronavirus on journalism by signing up to our future research webinars and other events here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar
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🤖 Google is testing a product that uses artificial intelligence technology to produce news stories, pitching it to news organisations including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal’s owner, News Corp. nytimes.com/2023/07/19/bus…
🧵 Meta’s company strategy is giving lower priority to current affairs and politics on its social media platforms while beginning to also retract news pages from Canada. ft.com/content/8ebb88…
"Exiled journalists are always presented as like personas in the public discourse. But when it comes to the real life experience of being in exile as a journalist, there was a dominance of being abandoned by the international community," says @MLouisaE
"The lack of awareness is extremely frustrating on a personal or emotional level. It translates into basically a total absence of structural support," says @MLouisaE twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
"A free and vibrant media is the foundation for any healthy democracy," says Nic Glicher from @TRF in his introduction #DNR23 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
👎Fewer people are using Facebook for news, with Twitter usage relatively stable in most countries
📱TikTok is gaining even more ground among young audiences
💰The economic downturn is putting further pressure on business models reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…
Facebook is becoming much less important as a source of news
👎 Just 28% say they accessed news via Facebook in 2023 compared with 42% in 2016. News usage for Twitter has remained relatively stable, with usage of Mastodon very low. Evolution for each platform in the chart below
🇺🇦 Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a number of journalists and newsrooms have had to flee both Russia and Ukraine in order to keep reporting safely and independently from government influence. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/forced-ex…
🇸🇻 Often exile journalism is the only way independent media under authoritarianism can survive. Recently, Salvadorian newspaper @_elfaro_ announced that it had to move its legal and admin operations due to what they describe as a campaign of gov harassment reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/jailed-ex…
🔥What are the members of Cohort 3 at the Oxford Climate Journalism Network doing?
In this week's thread you'll find stories and projects by members and their teams, curated by our colleagues @arguedasortiz and @katherine_dunn
🇬🇧From the U.K., @KrystinaShveda and colleagues at @cnni have this detailed story on how extreme heat hits your health—and how how a severe heat wave in SE Asia hit outside workers first