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🌧 Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on this platform, diversity and inclusion, the closure of a legacy local newspaper and more.
🐦A new Twitter logo. The iconic blue bird logo that has identified Twitter for over a decade has been replaced by an X as part of a rebranding of the platform by Elon Musk. https://bit.ly/3Qbd8Dk
🇺🇸 Diversity and inclusion. The president of Texas A&M University resigned because “negative press has become a distraction” after the hiring of Black journalist and former New York Times editor Kathleen McElroy was derailed amid pushback on her work on diversity and inclusion. https://bit.ly/3DnaVwZ
⚽️Women in sports coverage. As coverage and attention of women's football continues to increase amid the World Cup, Cristina Dissat looks at the rise of women sports journalists in Brazil. https://bit.ly/44AL6VX
🗞A newspaper closure. The Santa Barbara News-Press, a local Californian Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, has declared bankruptcy and ceased publishing after 150 years. https://lat.ms/3rFDeUJ
☀️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.
🤖 The dawn of AI reporting. 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. https://nyti.ms/44K2jw8
🧵Meta and the news. 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. https://on.ft.com/44VhZg3
🎓 Student journalism. College newspapers and student reporting are behind two prominent departures at Stanford University and Northwestern University this month. https://nyti.ms/3XZf2bP
🇮🇹 Climate coverage. Questions are arising in Italian climate reporting as the media appear to be more interested in how the extreme heat is being reported in the foreign press than delving deeply into the effects in its own country. https://bit.ly/44MNEQy
📻 Strike action. BBC journalists are launching a fresh strike in a dispute over cuts to local radio, from 11am today for 24 hours. https://bit.ly/44xPyom
🌤️Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on the death of a Mexican journalist, student journalism in Indonesia, a partnership between news and AI, and more.
🕯️Press freedom in Mexico. Mexican journalist Nelson Matus was killed Saturday in the coastal resort city of Acapulco. Local media reported that Matus had survived two assassination attempts in 2017 and 2019. https://reut.rs/44MtkPn
🎓 Student journalism threatened. Students in Indonesia say they are being targeted with expulsion, physical assault and death threats after writing about sensitive subjects in student publications. https://bit.ly/3K0Xcjc
🤖 AI partnership. The Associated Press is licensing a part of its archive of news stories to OpenAI under a deal that will explore generative AI's use in news which could set a precedent for similar partnerships between the industries. https://reut.rs/43t1Tcc
❌ Local journalism in peril. Global has reportedly put up to 40 roles at risk of redundancy amid a restructure of its regional radio newsrooms, a move which the National Union of Journalists calls “yet another blow to the news coverage by local journalists”. https://bit.ly/3DiKo3E
🏀 No more sports. After the closure of the NYT’s Sports Desk, the paper’s staff left disheartened and worried, with many angry about the company’s plan to subcontract certain sports coverage through The Athletic. https://bit.ly/3NYSdjY
👋Good morning! Here's our daily roundup with pieces about journalism worldwide including on press freedom in Mexico, the BBC presenter, the Kyiv Independent and more.
🕯Press freedom in Mexico. Mexican reporter Luis Martin Sánchez Iniguez was found dead on Saturday, the most recent victim of violence against journalists in the country, the deadliest in the world for the profession. https://bit.ly/3rqTVTN
🇬🇧 BBC presenter named. BBC presenter Huw Edwards was named as the person involved in a controversy that's been dominating the UK front pages this week. The presenter of 20 years of the News at Ten faces allegations over payments for sexually explicit images to a young person. https://bit.ly/3XRfSHI
🇺🇦 Ukrainian media. Kyiv Independent editor-in-chief Olga Rudenko gave the keynote speech at The Centre for Investigative Journalism's summer conference. “We believe shining light on misconduct in the Ukrainian military, even during war, is in the long run helping Ukraine,” she said. https://bit.ly/44EudcI
🧵Threads. More about the app everyone is talking about: Fran di Fazio talks to news professions to find out what journalists think of Meta's Threads so far. https://bit.ly/3JXP3fg
🌞Good morning!
Here's our daily roundup on journalism worldwide including pieces on Threads, Russian disinformation and AI in the newsroom.
🧵A new app. EU users and accounts including media like Le Monde and AFP are finding ways to download and use Meta's new Threads app, currently unavailable in the bloc due to concerns about its data use regulation. https://bit.ly/3XJmsjk
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🇮🇹 Russian disinfo. Italy, currently still more economically and politically connected to Russia than many other EU countries, could play an important role in countering Russian disinformation, according to this new piece for the European Council on Foreign Relations. https://bit.ly/3NI0uZr
🤖Reporting on AI. Three experts with experience in investigating AI give their advice on how to report better on AI in this long read for CJR. https://bit.ly/43f0J3X
📜Use of AI in newsrooms. And speaking of AI, Hannes Cools and Nicholas Diakopoulos analysed 21 guidelines for the use of generative AI in the newsroom and added observations and suggestions. https://bit.ly/44Bl04V
👋 Good morning! Here's our daily roundup on journalism worldwide, with readings on Ukraine, India, Russia and more
🇺🇦 A voice from the frontline. A first-hand account from a journalist from Zaporizhzhia who reported from occupied territory https://bit.ly/3rgIyhb
🇪🇸 A cool project. 24 news outlets are joining forces again in Comprobado, a project to debunk political misinformation ahead of the Spanish election on 23 July https://bit.ly/3NDeP9E
🇮🇳 An inspiration. "Resistance is possible. I hope this film brings a ray of hope that it is not easy to kill journalism," says Indian journalist Ravish Kumar in this interview with Tim Adams about a new documentary about him https://bit.ly/46zJX2o
📺 Good context. Read Kumar’s important resignation speech that we published in full back in December https://bit.ly/44cASuN
🪆 True heroes. On Tuesday Award-winning Russian journalist Elena Milashina and prominent lawyer Alexander Nemov were severely beaten in Chechnya. Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, Milashina's editor at Novaya Gazeta, flew to Beslan and brought her back to Moscow https://bit.ly/44vPyox
🌤️Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on the closure of the oldest national newspaper, the battle between Canada and Google, Facebook moderation in Ethiopia, and more.
📰 Closure of a legend. The world’s oldest national newspaper, Wiener Zeitung, has printed its last daily edition almost 320 years after it began after a recent law change meant it had ceased to be profitable as a print product. https://bit.ly/3pqIkn9
🇨🇦 No more news. Google announced its decision to remove links to Canadian news from its Search, News, and Discover products in response to Canada’s recently enacted Bill C-18. https://bit.ly/439Ymze
🇪🇹 Content moderation. New research casts doubt on multilingual language models, which are commonly used for AI moderation of low-resource languages, particularly in Ethiopia where Facebook is accused of fueling violence through poor moderation. https://bit.ly/46zwFTG
🖨️ Question for magazines. Only one large magazine printer remains in the UK after the closure of Prinovis UK, a Liverpool-based printer. https://bit.ly/3PGmXZM
🚌 Elderly media literacy. For two months, six journalists and media literacy trainers from Maldita.es — a Madrid, Spain-based nonprofit fact-checking platform — travelled to 20 rural towns across Spain, teaching older people media literacy and online safety skills. https://bit.ly/3pA0naw
🇭🇰 Entry denied. Freelance Japanese journalist Yoshiaki Ogawa, known for his Hong Kong coverage, was denied entry into the city in what is believed to be a first for a reporter from Japan. https://bit.ly/43b300b
🌤️Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on National Geographic, strikes at a French newspaper, Poland’s independent journalism, and more.
⏹️ Industry layoffs. National Geographic is laying off its staff writers, the latest cut for the magazine. Article assignments will be contracted out to freelancers or pieced together by editors. https://wapo.st/3Nz1iA1
🪧 Strikes over EiC. Staff at France’s flagship Sunday newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche, are striking to protest the appointment of new editor-in-chief Geoffroy Lejeune who previously worked for a far-right magazine. https://bit.ly/44pSinh
🇵🇱 Protecting independent journalism. The editors of most of Poland’s main private media outlets have issued a joint statement in defence of independent journalism after claims that the government has sought to gain influence over the country’s two largest news websites. https://bit.ly/448IHBJ
🇳🇿 Covering marginalised communities. A look at how media organisations in New Zealand can evaluate their reporting on issues about or affecting Māori and te Tiriti o Waitangi. https://bit.ly/3XsQ98
💸 Tax credits. Inside Canada's $595 million tax credit program to fund journalism and what the U.S. can learn from it. https://bit.ly/3r4U2nU
☁️Good morning! Today, we’re spotlighting the chapter on news participation from #DNR23
📃The chapter. How are people participating in news online and how are levels of engagement impacted by the quality of online experiences? Explore the chapter by Kirsten Eddy. https://bit.ly/3NvIotJ
🎙The podcast episode. Listen to our 3nd #DNR23 podcast episode breaking down key findings from the chapter. https://bit.ly/3pi9b4L
💬The proportion of what we call active participators (those who post or comment on news online) has declined by 11 points since 2018. Over the same period, we have seen the rise of passive consumers (those who only consume news) from 42% to 47%.
🌍The percentage of active participators varies widely across the world, from 6% in Japan and 10% in the UK to 52% in Nigeria and 56% in Kenya.
📱When we asked audiences how they engaged with news online, the type of engagement that has increased since 2018 is sharing news via instant messaging platforms like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger (17% to 22%).
👍Across all markets, people are almost three times as likely to say they have a positive experience (33%) of engaging with news online or on social media than a negative one (13%). However, more people (40%) in our survey said they have neither a positive or negative experience.
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☀️Good morning from a sunny and unusually warm Oxford!
Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on an attack on a journalist in Turkey, a new EU media law, a look behind the scenes of a BBC investigation and more.
🇹🇷 Journalist attacked. Local Turkish journalist Sinan Aygül, chief editor of the privately owned website Bitlis News and chair of the Bitlis Journalists Society, was attacked by two men on June 17, CPJ MENA reports. https://bit.ly/43U6F3v
🇪🇺 Media law. EU governments have asked for a national security exemption to the bloc's new media law, allowing for the surveillance of reporters, Mathieu Pollet reports for POLITICO Europe. The regulation was initially intended to safeguard media independence. https://bit.ly/3NIMiRm
🔥A BBC investigation. A BBC Arabic investigation into the impact of gas flaring in Iraq resulted in a documentary film, “Under Poisoned Skies,” one of few examples of climate reporting in the region. https://bit.ly/3JrmtCM
💰A sustainable business model. Swahili-language data journalism news site Nukta Africa created a business model to sustain its journalism and allow for growth. https://bit.ly/3Xmw8Af
🗓 After a very busy week at the Institute, here's our Friday roundup with pieces and charts we've published and promoted in the last few days.
Our annual Digital News Report was published on Wednesday, with data from: 📊 46 markets 🌍 93,000+ respondents. https://bit.ly/3Pg4Rxa
💬Our global launch event. Reuters hosted our #DNR23 global launch event in London, where a presentation of the key findings was followed by a panel discussion chaired by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, with Reuters' Jane Barrett, The News Movement's Kamal Ahmed and BBC News' Naja Nielsen. https://bit.ly/3JjUwg1
🎙A podcast episode. We also published our 1st #DNR23 podcast episode breaking down key findings from the report. https://bit.ly/44mjCTN
🧒🏽 A long read. In non-DNR news, our colleague Gretel Kahn spoke to a group of young fact-checkers aiming to debunk misinformation for their generation as part of a programme run by Agência Lupa and MediaWise. https://bit.ly/3MZ1IPF
✍️A seminar. If you missed our seminar with Louisa Esther Mugabo, PhD candidate at University College Cork studying the phenomenon of exile journalism, you can read a summary of the discussion by
Gretel Kahn and watch a video of the talk here: https://bit.ly/3Jj17ar
📌 Our Digital News Report 2023 is out today!
🌍 46 markets
📊 93,000+ respondents
📋 Cross-national analysis from Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Kirsten Eddy, Craig T. Robertson, Rasmus Nielsen & our partners
Here are some key findings:
👎 Fewer people are using Facebook for news, with Twitter usage relatively stable in most countries. Just 28% say they accessed news via Facebook in 2023 compared with 42% in 2016.
💃 TikTok is gaining even more ground among young audiences. Across our global sample, it is now used by 44% of 18–24s for any purpose (and by 20% for news). It's most heavily used in the Global South, where it is used by many across ages.
💰 The report finds that growth in payment for online news has stalled in many markets. 39% of news subscribers across more than 20 countries say they have cancelled/renegotiated subscriptions. Around half of non-subscribers in 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇩🇪 say that nothing would convince them to pay.
📉 There is declining interest in news in a large number of countries. The decline is especially striking in Spain (34 points since 2015), UK (27) and France (23). Interest is lower amongst women and younger people, with falls often greatest in polarised countries.
🙈 36% in our sample avoid the news sometimes/often, 7 points more than in 2017 but 2 lower than in 2022. News avoiders are interested in positive stories (55%), solutions (46%) and explainers (39%).
🤔 Trust in news has fallen across markets by a further 2 points in the last year, reversing in many countries the gains made in the pandemic. On average, 40% say they trust most news most of the time. 🇫🇮 has the highest levels of trust (69%) while 🇬🇷 has the lowest (19%).
🎙️ News podcasting continues to resonate with younger audiences, but is still a minority activity. 34% access a podcast monthly, based on a group of 20 countries, but only 12% access a news show.
🖱️ Fewer people are participating in online news than in the recent past. Across markets, only 22% are now active participators, with around half (47%) not participating at all.
🔗 Find the full report along with a summary video, podcast chapter slide deck and more on our website: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2023
#DNR23
🌥 Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on the death of former Italian prime minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi, an investigation into a conspiracy theory newspaper and more.
🇮🇹 End of an era. Silvio Berlusconi died aged 86, Italian media announced today. The controversial former prime minister founded Mediaset, Italy's largest commercial broadcasting network. His media group includes TV channels in Spain and Germany, as well as a publisher. https://bit.ly/3NpCVWA
🇬🇧 A conspiracy theory newspaper. BBC News's Marianna Spring investigated 'The Light', a UK publication that shares conspiracy theories and hate. https://bit.ly/3J7W7p2
💰The Telegraph for sale. Press Gazette's Bron Maher analyses the possibility that the UK's DMGT, the owners of the Daily Mail, could buy the Telegraph as it goes up for sale. The acquisition would give the publisher majority control of the UK's national daily newspaper market. https://bit.ly/3Npxg2L
🌥Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on big changes for newsrooms on both sides of the Atlantic, a look at local news in Ukraine, and more.
🇺🇸 CNN chair out. After a troubled few days following the publication of a feature in the Atlantic documenting the problems CNN faced during his tenure, the network's chair Chris Licht was asked to step down. https://bit.ly/3MUjALv
🇬🇧 Telegraph to be sold. UK publications the Telegraph and the Spectator will be put up for sale as a consequence of significant debts owed by the titles' owners. https://bit.ly/3oSE4fL
🇺🇦 Ukrainian local news. Laura Hazard Owen delves into the Media Development Foundation's latest report on the state of local news in Ukraine for NiemanLab. https://bit.ly/45VogcI
📱Reddit layoffs. Social platform Reddit is laying off 90 employees and slowing hiring amid restructuring in order to break even next year, Sarah E. Needleman reports for the Wall Street Journal. https://bit.ly/3WUacwa
🌥️ Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on an overturned conviction of a journalist, press freedom in Turkmenistan, the obstacles on reporting in Ukraine, and more.
🇭🇰 Conviction overturned. Hong Kong's top court overturned the conviction of journalist Bao Choy, who had been accused of making false statements to access vehicle registration records for a documentary about an attack on pro-democracy protesters in 2019. https://bit.ly/3NdjPTu
🇹🇲 Independent journalism persisting. A look at the state of press freedom in Turkmenistan and how independent journalism persists in a closed-off and censored media environment. https://bit.ly/3NmCbS9
🇺🇦 Reporting on Ukraine. Journalists reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine face ongoing conflicts with the Ukrainian government to receive access and accreditation. https://bit.ly/3NbFbAp
📰 New boss at the helm. USA Today has a new editor-in-chief: Terence Samuel, a top news executive at NPR will lead the outlet starting July 10. https://bit.ly/3N9S8Ld
📺 Inside CNN. A deep dive into CNN CEO Chris Licht’s mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism - and how it went wrong. https://bit.ly/3CdUNxg
⛅ Good morning from Oxford! Here's a little thread of things we've published this week on our website including pieces on LGBTQ journalism, climate coverage for business journalists, public service media, and a new essay series.
🌈 Our contributor Laura Oliver spoke with Ankur Paliwal, the founder of queerbeat, a publication that aims to showcase stories, and transform narratives, about queer people in India. https://bit.ly/3Oped8Y
🌱 A new paper by journalist fellow Evie Liu looks at how business journalists can cover sustainability and climate stories as they become more an important component in business journalism. https://bit.ly/3Q4nyo4
🎧 How important news audiences feel public service media is, both for themselves and wider society? In this podcast episode, host Federica Cherubini speaks with our Director of Research Richard Fletcher about the value of public service media. https://bit.ly/3DlaZ02
✍🏽 Introducing a new essay series from alumni of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network around the world which offers advice on how to produce better climate coverage. https://bit.ly/3Dn9L4p
👋 Hello! Our daily roundup on journalism worldwide includes stories on press freedom in Egypt, AI philanthropy, an African investigations project, Prigozhin's media empire and more.
🇪🇬 Press freedom. Human rights researcher Patrick Zaki has been sentenced to three years in prison in Egypt on charges of 'spreading false news on social media'. He was arrested in 2020 for an article on the plight of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority community https://bit.ly/3K5t2uT
⚖️ A libel case. Actor and producer Noel Clarke is seeking over £10m in damages from the Guardian over articles about alleged behaviour towards women. In March 2022 the police concluded there wasn't evidence to pursue a criminal investigation https://bit.ly/46YB4j1
🔎 An investigation. A look at the work of an epic investigative journalism project, the Network of African Investigative Reporters, to uncover the truth behind the horrific killing of Cameroonian radio journalist Martinez Zogo https://bit.ly/3K09mJ1
💰 Philanthropy. "We proudly support the American Journalism Project’s mission to strengthen our democracy by rebuilding the country’s local news sector" - Open AI CEO Sam Altman. Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT is donating $5m to understand how AI can strengthen local news https://bit.ly/3OjIqpZ
🇷🇺 Prigozhin. What will become of the 'Patriot' media empire of Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, following the failed Wagner coup, as well as its huge sources of state funding? https://bit.ly/3DiHPhZ
🌨 Hello from rainy Oxford! Here's a little summary of things we've published this week on our website inc. pieces on news on TikTok, Indian TV news, podcasts, collaboration and lessons from our #DNR23 launch in Italy.
🇮🇳 Following the shooting dead of two convicted criminals as they spoke to Indian reporters, Raksha Kumar in an article yesterday, looked at how this story became a sensationalised media spectacle, and what it tells us about Indian TV news https://bit.ly/3PZk9a2
🤳 Peru and Kenya have some of the highest rates of TikTok use according to our #DNR23. On Wednesday we shared a piece by Gretel Kahn where she spoke to creators, inc. 🇵🇪 Otra Cara and 🇰🇪 Fake Woke with Justine, using the platform to deliver the news.
https://bit.ly/3PR5bD3
🇮🇹 On Wednesday, we published a piece by Marina Adami with five takeaways from our #DNR23 Italian launch in Turin, in collaboration with Università di Torino (in Italian). https://bit.ly/46N6kkW
🗣 What formats are working for news podcasts, who's hosting, listening and who's making money? Nic Newman joined Federica Cherubini for our latest #DNR23 podcast episode, published on Tuesday, to discuss. https://bit.ly/43kSl37
🤝 Journalist Fellow Frida Sandgren explored how newsrooms can further collaboration across departments and borders to address complex reporting challenges. Read her project, published on Monday, with lessons from ICIJ and AFP https://bit.ly/46Q4kso
👋 Hello! Here's our daily roundup with pieces about journalism worldwide including on the Sun/BBC story, Threads, violence in Mexico, press freedom in Ukraine and the LA Times' Latino readers.
📺 A tabloid story. The Sun's story about alleged inappropriate conduct of a star BBC presenter has raised 5 key questions about the tabloid's reporting, writes Jim Waterson, incl. around its contact with police, its evidence and its exact allegations https://bit.ly/3O84W5h
🪡 Threads. The fate of Google+, a once-novel social platform launched in response to another tech giant (Facebook) and "without a clear vision of why people should be using it", should be a warning to Threads writes Mike Isaac https://bit.ly/3O9xxHf
🕊️ Ukrainian journalism. Support for independent Ukrainian journalism, that can hold power to account, will be critical to the country's post-war recovery, says a new report by the Ethical Journalism Network https://bit.ly/44mcPd4
🇺🇸 Latino readers. The LA Times has launched a new free vertical aimed at Latino readers in LA and across the USA. "We see ourselves as observers and chroniclers of a community coming into its own," says De Los’ Fidel Martinez https://bit.ly/3DblVNW
🕯️ Violence in Mexico. "Indifference towards the suffering of others creates more space for impunity and leads to more violence against all of us, including journalists," says Mexican investigative journalist Anabel Hernandez on apathy to the extreme levels of violence https://bit.ly/3rqTVTN
🌤️ Hello from Oxford! Here's our daily roundup on journalism worldwide including the Julian Assange case, AP's stylebook, a journalism video game and social media in France.
⚖️ Coercion. UK journalists are being pushed to cooperate in the USA's case against Julian Assange, writes James Ball, who says he himself has been pressured https://bit.ly/3PNxvpM
📙 A style update. The term 'former Soviet republic[s]' is to be discouraged by AP when referring to the 14 countries (aside from Russia) that were once part of the Soviet Union, in an update to their stylebook https://bit.ly/43cA4oC
🎮 An innovative video game. A former Canadian crime reporter has developed a space-based video game which "tries to nail the nuts and bolts of reporting, and especially the less exciting aspects of covering local news as a lowly intern" https://bit.ly/3NFPFqP
📱 Social media and riots in France. "When things get out of hand, perhaps you have to put yourself in a position to regulate or cut them." Emmanuel Macron discussed the role of social media in the recent nationwide unrest with French mayors, leading one MP to dub him "Kim Jong Un" https://bit.ly/3D7VMzb
⚙️ Good morning. What do people think of algorithmic selection of news and how does this compare with attitudes towards editorial selection? These questions are at the heart of a #DNR23 chapter by Richard Fletcher.
Explore the chapter: https://bit.ly/43gVxMR
We asked people in our survey if they think each of the following are good ways to get news:
🔄Automatic selection based on past behaviour: 30%
🧑🤝🧑Automatic selection based on friends' consumption: 19%
👩💻Selection by editors and journalists: 27%
📉 Across all countries that we tracked since 2016, approval for algorithmic news selection based on past behaviour has declined (by 7 percentage points overall). In most cases though approval has been replaced with ambivalence.
👍 Those that say they are ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ interested in news are considerably more likely to agree that each form of news selection is a good way of getting the news. We also see significantly higher support for both news selected by past consumption (52%) and by editors and journalists (55%) among those who strongly agree they trust news most of the time.
📱 When we compare these attitudes according to how people get their news - via algorithm-reliant platforms like social media or going direct to news websites or apps that use more editorial curation - we find broadly similar levels of support for all forms of news selection.
🎙 “If someone thinks that editors are a good way to select news, it's likely they'll think automatic selection is a good way to get news as well, and vice versa. Low approval for one normally means low approval for the other."
-Chapter author Richard Fletcher in our podcast: https://bit.ly/46wOtPb
🗓 Good morning, here's our Friday roundup with pieces and charts we've published and promoted in the last few days.
🗣Monday. We held our annual Summer Symposium for our Journalist Fellows, who presented the projects they've been working on during their time with us. https://bit.ly/44bGNAw
🎙Tuesday. We published the latest episode of our #DNR23 podcast series, in which Kirsten Eddy talks to Federica Cherubini about her chapter on news participation. https://bit.ly/3pi9b4L
🥳Wednesday. We posted this thread celebrating the OCJN alumni who are finalists for the Covering Climate awards. https://bit.ly/3XzOgqA
🇺🇸 Thursday. We streamed the US launch of our Digital News Report, featuring our director Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, WSJ’s Shazna Nessa, the New York Times’ Lydia Polgreen, Reuters’ Arlyn Gajilan and Google News Lab’s LaToya Drake. https://bit.ly/437CAwn
📬Our newsletter is out today. You can check it out here: https://bit.ly/3r0YdAS
🌤️Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on Russian state media coverage, student journalism in Indonesia, peripheral journalism in Brazil, and more.
🪆 Russian coverage. An inside look at how Russia’s state media covered the Wagner revolt, calling it treason and hinting at the involvement of foreign powers, as it emphasised the lack of support by the Russian population. https://nyti.ms/43ZPKwl
🇮🇩 Student journalism. Student journalists in Indonesia are asking for the same protections their professional colleagues have as they endure violence, harassment, and exposure to litigation. https://bit.ly/44743iT
🇧🇷 From the community. Journalists in Brazil reporting from favelas and other communities outside the city centres are expanding and promoting more peripheral and community-driven journalism. https://bit.ly/442byHY
🇿🇦 Covering climate change. A new study highlights the importance of South African media to report on day-to-day issues related to climate change, rather than relying on events like conferences and climate disasters to guide their reporting. https://bit.ly/3JzK5oM
❌ Online harassment. The White House is condemning the online attacks from officials from Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party towards a WSJ reporter who questioned India’s prime minister about human rights in his country at a press conference last week. https://on.wsj.com/46sDWog
🌥Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on Canada's Online News Act, trans journalists, and more.
🇨🇦 A new law. Canada passed its Online News Act last week, requiring Google and Facebook to pay publishers for news. This could help publishers earn up to CA$329m a year, William Turvill reports for Press Gazette, but Meta has said it will respond by blocking news content. https://bit.ly/3qZE6mS
🏳️🌈Tackling media coverage of trans issues. Marigo Farr writes about the Trans Journalists Association in this piece for Nieman Reports. https://bit.ly/3Nt5zoi
🇮🇪 A suspension. The director general of Ireland's public broadcaster RTÉ has been suspended following revelations that a presenter was paid €345,000 above his published salary over a period of several years. https://bit.ly/3NsoMGF
💼A new appointment. Marie Claire named Nikki Ogunnaike as new editor-in-chief of the women's magazine. https://bit.ly/3Ju5Y8M
🌧️Good morning from rainy Oxford! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on Facebook in Vietnam, Tory tax on journalists, the role of radio in Egypt, and more.
💻Freedom of speech under threat. Facebook’s parent company Meta has been making repeated concessions to Vietnam’s authoritarian government, routinely censoring dissent and allowing those seen as threats by the government to be forced off the platform. https://wapo.st/3Xeoisq
💸Journalist tax. An open letter signed by almost 300 global news organisations is denouncing the British Conservative Party for charging journalists £137 to report on the governing party’s annual conference. https://bit.ly/42QEUaX
🇪🇬Radio in Egypt. A deep dive on the central role of radio in Egypt's African diplomacy from the Nasser era to the present day. https://bit.ly/3qVXila
🗞️Column trouble. Boris Johnson is the Daily Mail’s newest columnist, a move that was not cleared with the parliamentary authorities which constitutes a breach of the ministerial code. https://bbc.in/44a7dlo
✈️Journalist in exile. Wang Zhi'an was a star investigative reporter on China's main, state-run TV network. Now he is in exile, broadcasting his one-man news program from his living room in Tokyo. https://cbsn.ws/442KoA4
🗯️A focus on media criticism. We’ve just published the second episode of our #DNR23 podcast series. This week’s focus is on the chapter on news media criticism, by Dr Craig T. Robertson. Across all markets, half of people (53%) say they are ‘very’ or ‘quite often’ exposed to news media criticism, but there is a large variation across markets. Politicians and political activists are the most frequently cited source of news media criticism, and social media is by far the most common way people say they are exposed to media criticism. https://bit.ly/3Prmmel
📬Our newsletter is out today. You can check it out here: https://bit.ly/3XvTVOp
🎙️ Listen to our first #DNR23 podcast episode breaking down key findings from the report Nic Newman and Rasmus Nielsen talk social media, news avoidance, subscriptions, podcasts, attitudes to algorithms and more with Federica Cherubini
Audio and transcript here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-podcast-digital-news-report-2023-episode-1-what-you-need-know
🚪Nic on news gateways
"Direct access [to news orgs] has fallen by around 10 percentage points over the last five or six years, and every year it does the same thing. The direction of travel, I think, is pretty clear. And it's relentless."
📱Rasmus on social media
"If journalism wants to be for everybody, so for the whole public, it has to recognise that a lot of people are platform-first in terms of their media use. Publishers have to think about how they can reach them also on these platforms."
⚙️ Rasmus on users' attitudes to algorithms
"Just 3-in-10 say that automatic selection based on past consumption is a good way to get news and as many disagree. So people are quite sceptical of these approaches to getting news and their concerns."
🙈 Nic on news avoidance
"The news that avoiders liked the least, was the constantly-updating big stories of the day. And for people who never avoid the news, that's the news they liked the most. So you've really got this dilemma."
💬 Rasmus on participating in news
"It's not just online participation with news which is declining. It's also offline participation, which is down seven percentage points, since 2018, to 32%."
🎧 Listen to the podcast across platforms:
🟢 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4tqp5uLJCYbiEUq7MRHFnr?si=662d8700c6544bab
🍎 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/digital-news-report-2023-episode-1-what-you-need-to-know/id381703153?i=1000616911048
🤖 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYXB1Yi5pdC5veC5hYy51ay9mZWVkcy8xMjkwMjkvYXVkaW8ueG1s/episode/aHR0cDovL3Jzcy5vdWNzLm94LmFjLnVrL3RhZzoyMDIzLTA2LTEzOjExMDIyNTowMDA6ZmlsZTozMjI1MDM6YXVkaW8?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjP7ZyNnML_AhUVVaQEHTrfDhwQkfYCegQIARAF&hl=en-GB
☀️Good morning from sunny Oxford! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on the China-India media row, the conviction of a Nicaraguan journalist, a change in WaPo’s leadership, and more.
🇨🇳🇮🇳 Ongoing dispute. China has called for India to meet it halfway in a dispute over journalists working in each other's countries after China said its reporters in India had been treated unfairly and an Indian journalist was asked to leave China. https://reut.rs/3qDvD8L
🚨 An unfair conviction. Nicaraguan journalist Victor Ticay was convicted on charges of undermining national integrity and disseminating false news; crimes that in conjunction can carry a prison sentence to up to 16 years. https://bit.ly/3N3p5rw
📰 Change in leadership. Fred Ryan, the publisher and chief executive of The Washington Post for most of its ownership of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, will leave the company in August. https://wapo.st/3JbGL33
🏀 More media layoffs. The Athletic, the sports news outlet owned by The New York Times, laid off nearly 4 percent of its newsroom; 20 people will be laid off as part of the reorganisation, while more than 20 reporters will be moved to new assignments. https://nyti.ms/3N1jP7H
🐦 Tucker’s Twitter show. Tucker Carlson’s lawyer says he “will not be silenced by anyone” after it was reported that Fox News had sent the primetime host it fired a letter demanding he cease and desist presenting a new show on Twitter. https://bit.ly/3P9ctli
🗓 Here's our weekly roundup with pieces and charts we've published and promoted in the last few days.
💬A podcast episode. We published the fifth and final episode of our Authentic Leadership podcast hosted by Ramaa Sharma. She spoke to Fernanda Delmas and Marcela Turati on how they dealt with extreme challenges and found ways to support colleagues through them. https://bit.ly/3MZTuqx
🧒🏽A new piece. Our colleague Gretel Kahn spoke to a group of young fact-checkers aiming to debunk misinformation for their generation as part of a programme run by Agência Lupa and MediaWise. https://bit.ly/3MZ1IPF
🇮🇱 A seminar. If you missed our seminar with Noa Landau from Haaretz, you can watch a video of the talk here. https://bit.ly/45RklO5
📬 Our newsletter is out. Read it here: https://bit.ly/45YxlS3
☁️Good morning! Our daily round-up on journalism worldwide includes stories on Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira's legacy, trouble at Twitter and more.
📗Not silenced. The friends and colleagues of Dom Phillips, the British journalist killed on a reporting trip in the Amazon last year along with Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, will finish the book they were working on, 'How to save the Amazon'. https://bit.ly/3IYSdP8
🪙Twitter woes. Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was 59% below last year's, according to New York Times reports. https://bit.ly/3qzX1UM
🇺🇸 Journalist walk-out. Hundreds of journalists working for Gannett, the US’ largest newspaper chain, went on strike on Monday, Katie Robertson reports. https://bit.ly/42liHBj
🇬🇧 Tabloids on trial. Prince Harry is the first senior British royal to testify in court since 1891 as he appears today in one of several cases against UK tabloids. https://bit.ly/43ACwWu
📬 Our newsletter is out. Read it here: https://bit.ly/45M3LiF
🗓 Here's our weekly roundup with pieces and charts we've published and promoted in the last few days.
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🖊A new piece. We published a new piece by our contributor Laura Oliver which features several projects with a strong focus on Indigenous journalists and audiences. https://bit.ly/3oD1equ
🎙A podcast episode. We also published the fourth episode of our Authentic Leadership podcast hosted by Ramaa Sharma. She spoke to Rupa Jha, head of BBC India on resilience and choosing your battles: "You don't want rage to define you". https://bit.ly/42sQSHC
💬A seminar. If you missed our seminar with David Hidalgo from
Ojo Público, you can read our write-up of main points and watch a video of the talk here: https://bit.ly/3oHfvCj