Thread by @risj_oxford

🧵Here are 10 things you might have missed from our research this year covering topics including race, gender, news avoidance, misinformation, press freedom and more 👇

1. Non-white people are under-represented in top editor roles in a sample of news outlets across 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇬🇧🇧🇷🇿🇦, according to our study on race and leadership in the media by @rasmus_kleis @MeeraSelva1 @simgandi

📱reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/race-and-leade…

2. Our survey of journalists in eastern Europe found the vast majority believe anti-press rhetoric has increased since 2015.

Factsheet by @MeeraSelva1: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fighting-words…

3. A majority of 200+ editors and digital leaders said daily news and interview podcasts would be important to their companies in 2020.

From our annual Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions report by @nicnewman

digitalnewsreport.org/publications/2…

4. Politicians, celebrities, and other prominent public figures made up just 20% of the COVID-related misinformation claims in our sample but accounted for 69% of total social media engagement.

Study by @jsbrennen @_FelixSimon_ @pnhoward @rasmus_kleis

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/types-sources-…

5. In none of the 10 countries we looked at, spanning a sample of 200 news outlets, do women account for a majority of top editors.

Research by @simgandi @MeeraSelva1 @rasmus_kleis

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/women-and-lead…

6. Broadcasters and broadsheets were generally considered to have done the best job of covering the 2019 UK election. Of all news outlets we looked at, more people thought the BBC had done a 'good job'.

Research by @dragz @nicnewman @annisch

👉reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/mile-wide-inch…

7. An initial surge in news use in the UK near the start of the pandemic was followed in April/May by a steep rise in news avoidance.

For the past few months 20-25% of people say they actively avoid news.

Factsheet by @dragz @antoniskalog @rasmus_kleis:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-avoidance…

8. In early April almost every article in the Top 10 most read stories on the BBC, Guardian and Daily Mail websites was about coronavirus. By the end of July these numbered well under half.

Info compiled by @_FelixSimon_ here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-covid-19-ne…

9. 21% of Tweets about #COVID19 and the role of the WHO are considered toxic, with this % increasing after 26 March, when many countries went into lockdown.

Factsheet by @silviamajo @rasmus_kleis Joan Verdú @nandanrao @manlius84 Omiros Papaspiliopoulos

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/volume-and-pat…

10. Less than 1/6 of Generation Z (18-24 year-olds) go directly to news outlets as their main way of getting news, preferring instead to access news via social media.

From our #DNR20 by @nicnewman @dragz @annisch @simgandi @rasmus_kleis

digitalnewsreport.org/survey/2020/ov…