She is one of the UK's most senior broadcast journalists having left her role as Head of News and Current Affairs @Channel4 in May which she held since 2003. She previously worked in docs and current affairs including World in Action and The Big Story @itvnews and @C4Dispatches
"If your newsroom is not diverse, you will get the news wrong"
Last year she spoke to us on the importance of having a diverse newsroom and efforts to ensure staff at Channel 4 were reflective of the country.
In August 2019 she made headlines as she blasted world leaders and top media executives in her MacTaggart Lecture at the @EdinburghTVFest. Watch the speech:
In an interview with @pressgazette marking the end of her time at Head of News and Current Affairs she said: “It’s been journalists who have gone out in this country and discovered what is really happening… [in] the most fantastic public service role.” pressgazette.co.uk/dorothy-byrne-…
📊48 markets
🌏Almost 100K respondents
📰Key headline: Audiences lean into video news and influencers, raising misinformation concerns and new dilemmas for publishers
1️⃣ Dependence on platforms keeps rising while engagement with traditional media sources continues to fall
In our US poll, right after Trump's inauguration, social media use (+6 points) overtook TV for the first time, but there was no equivalent ‘bump’ for traditional sources
2️⃣ Online video is king
Across 48 markets audiences have become more dependent on platforms with 44% of 18-24s saying these networks are their main source of news.
🚨 The proportion of all people that consume social video has grown from 52% in 2020 to 65% in 2025
☀️Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on AI tools, Meta and the news, the power of student journalism, and more.
🧵 Links in thread
📬And don’t forget to sign up to our newsletter
https://t.co/M7BRI7yWU0politics.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=60…
🤖 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…