⏯️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.
✅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.
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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🤖 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