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Neil Thurman

@neilthurman.bsky.social
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Professor, LMU Munich's @ifkw.bsky.social; Senior Research Fellow @citystgeorges.bsky.social. Use code HSS20 for 20% off my new book, Media Change, at Wiley's US tinyurl.com/eyznb67j, EU tinyurl.com/5ec2s346 & UK tinyurl.com/47emtw95 shops

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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks to @ahepp.bsky.social from @zemki.bsky.social for reviewing my new book, Media Change, in @journals.sagepub.com's Information Polity. 👉Get 20% off the book at Wiley. See links in🧵👇 1/3
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Despite Meta raking in nearly $200 billion in ad revenue, some Facebook page owners (SMEs, charities) can now only include 2 links per month in their organic posts & comments. Pay Meta US$1800/year & you can post 20 per month. Want to get unlimited links, as before? That'll be US$6000/year.
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🙏 Thanks to Aljosha Karim Schapals @qutdmrc.bsky.social for reviewing Media Change in Publizistik, edited by @inesengelmann.bsky.social @jajuenger.bsky.social @kuempelanna.bsky.social @manuelpuppis.ch Read his review in German: rdcu.be/frtft8ohewpa 👉Get 20% off the book at Wiley. See links in🧵👇
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Looking forward to presenting this new research today at #ecc2026. Come along at 11:15 in room FA | B2.43.
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🙏 Deborah Barcella for reviewing "Media Change" in @journals.sagepub.com's Journalism: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🙏 too to Journalism's reviews editor, @journalismatcity.bsky.social's @glendacooper.bsky.social for commissioning the review. 👉Get 20% off at Wiley's website. See links in🧵👇
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thanks to Marta Majorek for reviewing "Media Change" in the Central European Journal of Communication. Thanks too to the journal's reviews editor, Agnieszka Węglińska, for commissioning the review. Read Marta's review here: journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article...
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🙏 Deborah Barcella @usi.ch for reviewing Media Change in @journals.sagepub.com's Journalism. 🙏 too to @journalismatcity.bsky.social's @glendacooper.bsky.social for commissioning the review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🙏 to Qian Yu for reviewing "Media Change" in @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Journal of Media Economics: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👉 Use code HSS20 for –20%: www.wiley.com/en-us/shop/g... (Wiley US) www.wiley.com/en-fr/shop/g... (Wiley EU) www.wiley.com/en-gb/shop/g... (Wiley UK)
An extract of Qian Yu's review of "Media Change" in the Journal of Media Economics.
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Very proud of @sinatk.bsky.social for her super well-prepared, spirited & successful🎉 PhD defence @ifkw.bsky.social last week. Thanks to fellow supervisor @thanitzsch.bsky.social, examiner @cschwem2er.bsky.social & to @volkswagenstiftung.de for supporting Sina's work through my Freigeist Fellowship.
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Many thanks to @stuartallan123.bsky.social, Professor @cujournmedcul.bsky.social for this endorsement of my new book, Media Change: 👉 Use code HSS20 for –20%: www.wiley.com/en-us/shop/g... (Wiley US) www.wiley.com/en-fr/shop/g... (Wiley EU) www.wiley.com/en-gb/shop/g... (Wiley UK)
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Many thanks to @rasmuskleis.bsky.social Senior Research Associate @reutersinstitute.bsky.social for this endorsement of my new book, Media Change: 👉 Use code HSS20 for –20%: www.wiley.com/en-us/shop/g... (Wiley US) www.wiley.com/en-fr/shop/g... (Wiley EU) www.wiley.com/en-gb/shop/g... (Wiley UK)
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Many thanks to @hermida.bsky.social, Professor @ubcjournalism.bsky.social for this endorsement of Media Change 👉 Use code HSS20 at Wiley for 20% off. Valid to Nov 30 2026: www.wiley.com/en-us/shop/g... (Wiley US) www.wiley.com/en-fr/shop/g... (Wiley EU) www.wiley.com/en-gb/shop/g... (Wiley UK)
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Many thanks to Pablo J Boczkowski of @nuschoolofcomm.bsky.social for this endorsement of Media Change. Order with a 20% discount using code: HSS20. Valid until Nov 30, 2026: www.wiley.com/en-us/shop/g... (Wiley US) www.wiley.com/en-fr/shop/g... (Wiley EU) www.wiley.com/en-gb/shop/g... (Wiley UK)
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I'm grateful to @cscolari.bsky.social for reviewing Media Change in the @icahdq.bsky.social's Annals journal: doi.org/10.1093/annc... 20% discount with code HSS20 at Wiley's… …US shop: www.wiley.com/en-us/shop/g... …EU shop: www.wiley.com/en-fr/shop/g... …UK shop: www.wiley.com/en-gb/shop/g...
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Many thanks to @pmnapoli.bsky.social, Director @duke-dwc.bsky.social for this endorsement of my new book, 'Media Change'. 👉 Use code HSS20 on Wiley's website for 20% off: www.wiley.com/en-us/shop/g... (Wiley US) www.wiley.com/en-fr/shop/g... (Wiley EU) www.wiley.com/en-gb/shop/g... (Wiley UK)
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Many thanks to Howard Tumber, Emeritus ­Professor @journalismatcity.bsky.social @citystgeorges.bsky.social for this endorsement of my new book, 'Media Change'. Order your copy: 👉 a.co/d/0f75OKR8 (Amazon US) 👉 amzn.eu/d/0iJvoUK0 (Amazon EU) 👉 www.wiley.com/shop/general... (Wiley)
Endorsement of the book "Media Change" by Howard Tumber.
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Consider my new book for semester- or trimester-long classes on media change. The 1st 2 chapters introduce 2 theoretical frameworks for understanding media change. The next 9 chapters are case studies of media change. Order, or request an examination copy: www.wiley.com/en-us/shop/g... #ica26
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Many thanks to @mattcarlson.bsky.social for this endorsement of my new book: “Simultaneously accessible & deep, detailed & sweeping, Media Change provides a much-needed framework for making sense of the ebbs & flows of media technology happening before our eyes” 👉 Order: amzn.eu/d/0fuWfWAf #ica26
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Many thanks for this endorsement of my new book by @thanitzsch.bsky.social, Professor @ifkw.bsky.social @lmu.de, Chair @worldsofjournalism.bsky.social & President @icahdq.bsky.social (#ICA26). Order your copy: 👉https://tinyurl.com/y7hmhyjm (Wiley) 👉https://amzn.eu/d/0fuWfWAf (Amazon)
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Many thanks to @snurb.info for this endorsement of my new book. Axel is @arc-gov-au.bsky.social Laureate Fellow & Professor @qutdmrc.bsky.social. We enjoyed his recent talk on Revisiting the Public Sphere and Its Algorithmically Shaped Publics @ifkw.bsky.social @lmu.de 👉 Order: amzn.eu/d/0fuWfWAf
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Finally holding a hardcopy of 'Media Change' feels great. Many thanks to @nallen2.bsky.social & the team at Wiley who superbly supported the book from proposal to publication. You can order the book at your favorite online bookstore & directly from the publisher, here: tinyurl.com/eyznb67j
The author of "Media Change" with his book.
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
'Media Change' is available for pre-order ahead of its release early next month. Many thanks for this endorsement to @karinwahlj.bsky.social, Professor & Dean @cujournmedcul.bsky.social, Cardiff University and President-Elect-Select, @icahdq.bsky.social (#ica26). 👉 Pre-order: amzn.eu/d/0fuWfWAf
Endorsement quote from Karin Wahl-Jorgensen for the book, Media Change: Contemporary Cases, Consequences, and Conceptualizations: (Wiley, 2026): 

"This strikingly original, engaging and accessible book is essential reading for anyone seeking to make sense of changes in our media landscape. The book’s richly detailed exploration of varied case studies – from live blogs to AI and internet pornography – sheds light on why and how transformations take place. In doing so, it challenges technologically determinist accounts, reminding us of the complexity of change." 

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Media+Change%3A+Contemporary+Cases%2C+Consequences%2C+and+Conceptualizations-p-9781394293568
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
'Media Change' is available for pre-order ahead of its release early next month. Many thanks to @thorstenquandt.bsky.social for this endorsement, which is featured on the back cover. 👉 Pre-order: amzn.eu/d/0fuWfWAf (Amazon EU) Also available at Wiley, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble, Hugendubel etc
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🚨Publication Alert! Led superbly by @greennail.bsky.social, this new paper examines which journalistic cultural orientations an LLM reflects. We compared GPT-4o's responses to Qs from the Worlds of Journalism Study survey with those of journalists in the US, UK & Germany: doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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Going with the Mainstream: Exploring GPT Representation of Journalistic Culture - Taewoo Kang, Tim Vos, Thomas Hanitzsch, Neil Thurman, Imke Henkel, Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri, Wiebke Loosen, 2026
As generative AI becomes increasingly integrated into journalism, questions about its implications for journalistic practice grow more urgent. Despite the rise ...
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
'Media Change' is available for pre-order ahead of its release in June. I’m very grateful to Claire Enders, CBE for offering the book’s first endorsement. 👉 Pre-order: amzn.eu/d/0fuWfWAf Also available at Wiley, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Booktopia, Hugendubel and other online bookstores.
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The @authorsguild.org & the @societyofauthors.bsky.social both now have 'human authored' schemes using the same logo to “help to identify the work of authors as being created with uniquely human skill and originality.” My new book is registered as Human Authored with The Authors Guild (#4198549).
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Cover finalized! Delighted Nam June Paik's estate allowed his sculpture to feature on the cover. It encapsulates some of the book's important themes: how new media remediates the old, the persistence of traditional media forms, how automation is being built on the back of prior media outputs.
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Great to see 1st proofs of my new book, Media Change: Contemporary Cases, Consequences & Conceptualizations. Thanks to @nallen2.bsky.social & Wiley's Social Sciences Team for their help thus far. Pre-ordering is already possible at your favourite online bookseller: www.wiley.com/en-us/Media+...
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thanks to @sethclewis.bsky.social, @markcoddington.bsky.social, and @tamarwilner.bsky.social for including our new AI Journalism report in the latest edition of their excellent RQ1 newsletter: rq1.substack.com/p/why-people... Full report: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-...
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Why people choose not to share news
Plus: UK journalists' skeptical adoption of AI, politicians as drivers of journalist harassment, and metrics' post-publication influence
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Has AI in journalism relieved journalists of low-level tasks? In our new report we find more frequent AI users are more – not less – likely to believe they work on low-level tasks too frequently. Full report: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-...
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Our representative survey of 1000+ journalists reveals: • Which journalists are using AI, how often & for what tasks • How they perceive its impact on their work & journalism more broadly • Their newsrooms' approaches to AI integration & policies reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-...
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
You'll find many more insights in the report, authored by @neilthurman.bsky.social @sinatk.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social. Key links to explore it 📱 Full report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-... 📃 PDF version reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
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AI adoption by UK journalists and their newsrooms: surveying applications, approaches, and attitudes
This report is primarily focused on whether and how journalists and news organisations use artificial intelligence, and how it relates to other aspects of their work.
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
We just published a new report on how UK journalists are adopting AI in their work Authored by @neilthurman.bsky.social @sinatk.bsky.social & @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it's based on a survey conducted in 2024 Read in full reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-... 10 findings in thread
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Please consider helping my student Laura Müller by answering her English language survey on the perception of Instagram ads. The survey is anonymous & only takes around 5 minutes: www.soscisurvey.de/bachelorarbe... Laura is completing her BA thesis at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Which distribution platforms – from print to podcasts – do journalists around the world produce for? 🗞️ 📨 📻 📺 📱 🌍 Which media formats – from audio to animation – do they produce in? 📽️ 📷 🎤 📈 ✍ 🌎 Read the new Worlds of Journalism Study Report to find out: www.worldsofjournalism.org/wp-content/u...
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The latest edition of our roundup on journalism features stories on a German newspaper going out of print, a car bomb targeting an Italian investigative journalist, and how abandoned news sites are turned into slop farms. Join us every weekday!
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Journalism Today. 17 Oct 2025
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LMU München @lmu.de · 16/10/2025
"Ein Klick hier, ein Wisch dort, und schon ist man wieder weg": Was passiert, wenn #Zeitungsverlage ihre Print-Ausgaben einstellen und ihre Lesenden nur noch online erreichen? 📰 #LMU-Professor @neilthurman.bsky.social hat das weltweit untersucht: www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
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Zeitungen: „Print hat noch immer Zukunft“
Kommunikationswissenschaftler Neil Thurman über das Ende der gedruckten taz und die Stärken und Schwächen des Digitalen.
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Worlds of Journalism @worldsofjournalism.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It is almost time for the release of the findings of Wave 3 of the Worlds of Journalism Study. Keep an eye out on our socials for more information. In the meantime, we are pleased to introduce you to all the researchers from across the globe who are involved in the study.
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The academic journal Digital Journalism (DJ) identified "many" hallucinated references in a submitted article. They desk-rejected the submission & told the authors they're "no longer welcome to submit to DJ." You have been warned: drive.google.com/file/d/1KfLL... @digitaljournalism.bsky.social
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20251010 DJ Newsletter V13 Issue 8 - international edition.pdf
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
A big shout out to all the researchers around the world who collected the data behind the soon-to-be-released Worlds of Journalism Wave 3 top-line findings. Full list of names here: zenodo.org/records/1528...
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Follow ‪@worldsofjournalism.bsky.social‬ for the forthcoming findings of the 3rd Wave of this global survey, involving surveys of 32,000 journalists in 75 countries. While you're waiting, take a look at the results of the UK-leg of the survey: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Our new study finds journalists: 👉 with higher AI knowledge and/or 👉 who work at newsrooms where AI is more integrated see AI in journalism as an opportunity to a significantly higher extent: openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/35... That said, AI is seen as more of a threat than an opportunity.
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City Research Online - Is Fear Born of Ignorance? Associations Between Journalists’ AI Attitudes, Knowledge, and Use
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Important research from @suttontrust.bsky.social about privilege of 100 elite media editors/presenters. Our @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report looks wider—at ALL UK journalists. We found over 22% privately educated. Well above the 7% nationwide: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
On 31 Dec, the @ajc.com will quit print & go online-only. What will happen to the audience attention it attracts? If the pattern's the same as @richardfletcher.bsky.social & I found for @the-independent.com, then none of the print reading mins will move online: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We're happy to share the full questionnaire we used in our recent survey of UK journalists on artificial intelligence: figshare.com/articles/onl... @sinatk.bsky.social & I designed the questionnaire with the assistance of students from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.
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Quantitative survey questionnaire on artificial intelligence (AI) in journalism fielded to journalists
A survey fielded between 29th August and 4th November 2024 on UK journalists' use of artificial intelligence (AI). The survey contains questions about journalists’:Personal characteristics, specifical...
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
New @indexoncensorship.org piece on our @reutersinstitute.bsky.social UK Journalists report. Mark Stimpson highlights our findings on UK journalists' diversity; experience of safety threats; & thoughts on media freedom, objectivity, & their societal roles: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/06/uk-j...
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UK journalists face growing personal threats and say media freedom is at risk - Index on Censorship
A new Reuters Institute report on the British media landscape found that nearly half of those surveyed think the truth is shaped by people in power
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Pornhub is to suspend their site in France in protest at a new age verification law: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... In our research, we found that 41% of 15–17-year-olds in France had seen porn via such porn sites, on average within the last month: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reach of—and recency of exposure to—pornography via each of eight media platforms among 15-, 16-, and 17-year-olds in France (N  =  999). Note: The size of the bubbles indicates the proportion who have had any exposure. The position of the bubbles indicates the mean and median days since last exposure.
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
@mitalilive.bsky.social @robynvinter.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards discussed our recent #UKJournalists report @cityjournalism.bsky.social Here's a summary of the panel by @marinaadami.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-cha...
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How to change UK journalism: what we learnt at the launch of our report on the profession today
A panel moderated by our Director, Mitali Mukherjee, discussed tech disruption, a lack of diversity and the uncertain future of young journalists.
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Tonight we'll present our new report on UK journalists in the 2020s at this event at @cityjournalism.bsky.social. Speakers include @robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards Register to join in person now buff.ly/9cAqOU9
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Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? And how has all this changed in the last decade? Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report answers these questions. It's based on our representative survey of 1130 UK journalists: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...
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