2. Concern over the spread of misinformation on social media has amplified calls to improve news literacy. @annisch, @dragz and @rasmus_kleis investigated the relationship between news literacy and social media use in five countries. Key findings below
3. In this online survey experiment, @simgandi tested the effect of a nudge on reducing the dissemination of false news on social media. Using the social norms theory, she examined whether a cheap and easy solution could reduce the willingness to share false news.
Her analysis showed that a message that encourages verifying information before sharing on social media on top of an article can reduce the willingness to share false news by 5 percentage points. Key findings below
4. @dragz@antoniskalog@rasmus_kleis found that the more people go direct to news, the less diverse and less partisan their news diets are. The more they access news via social, search and aggregators, diets become more diverse but also more partisan. See charts below
5. @dragz@annisch@rasmus_kleis find that across 36 news markets people who do not intentionally use social media for news still have broader news diets than people that do not use social media at all -with the effect stronger in countries with higher internet penetration
We are thrilled to announce today the third cohort of @risj_oxford Oxford Climate Journalism Network:
🙋🏾♀️ 100 journalists
🌎 57 countries represented
👉 All the names and outlets here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/members-oxford…
📊 Breakdowns by region, gender and medium in the map and charts below
Our climate network was founded back in 2021 by @wblau & @MeeraSelva1 and is run by our own @arguedasortiz & @katherine_dunn. Its mission is helping journalists improve climate change coverage
🎄Good morning! Today's round-up on journalism worldwide has pieces on state-backed hacking, Russian journalism, takeaways from a local news company founder and more
📱@hrw said Iranian government-backed hackers have targeted at least 20 people, including journalists, activists, researchers, academics, diplomats, and politicians "in an ongoing social engineering and credential phishing campaign."
@hrw 📺A TV Rain correspondent's "unscripted call to provide unspecified aid to Russian soldiers" caused a crisis for the exiled Russian outlet, with the Latvian media regulator revoking its broadcasting license and an investigation opened
🎄Good morning! Today's round-up on journalism worldwide has pieces on fact-checking,
conservative US media, press freedom in Turkey, gender and football punditry and a senior journalist stepping down
DeSantis "is able to brush off traditional media while receiving exceedingly friendly coverage from tame local websites and a national conservative press desperate for an alternative to Donald Trump in 2024" writes @maxwelltani on the Florida governor semafor.com/article/12/04/…
🌇Hello! Here's our last round-up of the week on journalism worldwide. Find pieces on social media, press freedom in the UK and Somalia, communicating climate science and a potentially disastrous story.
"At the most basic level, this is about concentration of power. Surely control of the speech of millions should not be up to the whims of a few powerful companies or individuals." @hrw's @astroehlein on what he sees as the central problem with social media context.news/big-tech/opini…
The arrests of four journalists covering a Just Stop Oil demonstration on a major motorway, may have constituted “unlawful interference” in their freedom of expression a review has found
-via @Bron_Maher pressgazette.co.uk/news/herts-pol…
Are newsrooms really embracing hybrid work? This is the question at the heart of 'Changing Newsrooms', our annual report by @fedecherubini on the many challenges facing news leaders worldwide
The report is based on a survey of a strategic sample of 136 senior media managers from 39 countries. Here are the key findings:
1️⃣ 61% of the leaders surveyed said that their organisations have implemented hybrid work. An additional 17% are still working out how to do it well
2️⃣ How are newsrooms embracing hybrid work?
49% of our respondents work at organisations where staff are required to be in the office for a minimum number of days. 29% said they follow a more voluntary approach. Only 5% require most people to work from home most of the time