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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 23h
New survey of 1.1k communications researchers by Ho et al finds “widespread pragmatic [genAI] adoption, institutional ambiguity, editorial caution, and heterogeneous cultural norms intersect to create structural tensions that individuals cannot resolve alone.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Interested in, or already using (for academic or industry research) digital twins? In this analysis, digital twins' responses "correlate weakly [0.20] with human responses". Not nothing but.. not great if goal is reliable knowledge or basis for consequential decisions www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sophie Nadeau 🇨🇦 @sophienadeau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The gap between what journalists & newsrooms think news is and how it’s perceived by the audience continues to evolve. It’s a fascinating subject, and this new article adds additional insight to the conversation.
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How do people define what is and is not news? In a new article led by Tali Aharoni based on analysis of 8 chat-based focus groups and 162 in-depth interviews, we document how not all journalism is seen as news, and not everything people call “news” is journalistic www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“Having Fun and Learning Something”: How Users in Four Countries Define What News Is – and Is Not
News categorizations are embedded in daily media routines. While research often relies on professional and academic definitions, users may have different understandings of what constitutes “news.” ...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A string of colleagues and collaborators presenting various work in progress at ECREA today, first up @richardfletcher.bsky.social with “Investigating the impact of AI-rewritten news articles on reader engagement, comprehension, and interest across six countries” (12:30 - 12:45, FSS | P31) 1/2
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Across half a century and countries accounting for 3/4 of the world's population, majority trust in news is the exception, not the rule. Trust has declined over time, and the decline has accelerated. All that and more from @richardfletcher.bsky.social and I here www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What do we know about news media trust today and what might a research agenda to advance our understanding in the future look like? Terrific new edited book by @naylafawzi.bsky.social, @jesperstromback.bsky.social & @yarivtsfati.bsky.social in open access here www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
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Mainstream News Media Trust | Antecedents, Consequences, and Remedies
Bringing together some of the foremost scholars in the field, this book offers a critical introduction to mainstream news media (dis)trust and its social and
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Real privilege to speak with Members of Parliament in Denmark at an expert hearing about the work we did in the commission on news media subsidies. Also glad that the report has spurred interest internationally, I have had many interesting conversations already rasmuskleisnielsen.net/2026/08/20/e...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How quickly does the structure of digital media use change, and how well have incumbents been able to defend their position and remain competitive through waves of technological innovation and changes in user behavior? I had a look at share of time spent online rasmuskleisnielsen.net/2026/08/07/c...
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Change and continuity in who dominates the online attention economy
How quickly does the structure of digital media use change, and how well have incumbents been able to defend their position and remain competitive through waves of technological innovation and chan…
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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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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The incentive structure around grounding AI outputs on real-time issues looks busted, and various forms of PR may increasingly drown out news if incentives for publishers remain unclear. Where are we heading? I've tried to sketch out possible future scenarios rasmuskleisnielsen.net/2026/07/07/h...
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How might the incentives for (news) content to ground AI output on real-time related issues evolve?
The incentive structure around grounding AI outputs on real-time related issues looks busted, and PR and other forms of strategic communication may increasingly drown out news content if the incent…
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
What is the 'public test' for AI use in news media? What is the difference between resigned, furtive, romantic, and modernist responses to AI in journalism? All that and more in my Nordic AI Journalism #NAMS2026 summit closing keynote, transcript + video here rasmuskleisnielsen.net/2026/06/22/w...
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What’s in it for me (as a member of the public)? A ‘public test’ for AI in news
I gave the closing talk at the Nordic AI in Media Summit 2026 May 27 – 28th Copenhagen, Denmark. It is an incredible event, and it was a privilege to be part of it. A video of my talk is here…
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Aske Kammer @askekammer.dk · 19/06/2026
No notes. This is an excellent opportunity for Early Career scholars with an interest in platform studies.
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Come work with us! Two-year postdoc at the Department of Communication at U of Copenhagen Join a world-class public research university with international colleagues in a city ranked high on quality of life Starting salary €63k/$70k+pension Apply by August 2 Link jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Postdoctoral position in platform studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Nearly half of @reutersinstitute.bsky.social DNR respondents say they prefer getting news from sources that don’t have a particular point of view. But can public demand for impartial news survive platforms and polarization? Read my chapter here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“Trust in news and the information environment is going down”, Jim Egan says, but in many cases “trust in news organisations appears to be holding up as brands” #DNR26 podcast with him, @mitalilive.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-pod...
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Our podcast: Digital News Report 2026. Episode 1: What you need to know
In this episode we explore how people are consume news in 2026, the role of platforms, levels of trust and interest, AI chatbots, news influencers and more.
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Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Our book The Brussels Bubble: Inside the European Union in the Digital Age with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org is out now OPEN ACCESS! We take you on an ethnographic journey behind the scenes of multilateralism, from Brexit to COVID-19 to Russia's war on Ukraine 👉 Find it here: tinyurl.com/m237ry4b
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Mass offerings "are harder to do because you can get anything that you want and a much deeper version of it online” Simon Robinson says at the London launch of #DNR26, featuring debate with @mitalilive.bsky.social, Emily Kent Smith, and Kamal Ahmed reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/we-need...
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“We need to rethink what news is” – Our panel on building and keeping audience relationships
A summary of our Digital News Report global launch with Simon Robinson from Reuters, Emily Kent Smith from Goalhanger and Kamal Ahmed from Fortune
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 16/06/2026
It's that time of year again: @reutersinstitute.bsky.social has put out its 2026 Digital News Report. Our team broke down some key findings — including how people continue to abandon news sites and apps in favor of social media and, increasingly, chatbots to get their news. buff.ly/ahksode
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News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media
Facebook for news is on the rebound, impartial news isn't dead, and other findings from RISJ's 2026 Digital News Report
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The 2026 Digital News Report is out, led by Jim Egan and the team at the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. For the first time this year, social media and video networks are, on average across the markets covered, more popular than both TV and owned news websites and apps as sources of news. 1/5
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🚨 Our Digital News Report 2026 is out! Authored by Jim Egan, Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Nic Newman, Rasmus Nielsen, Mitali Mukherjee and Richard Fletcher, it is based on 100K interviews in 48 markets Full report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news... 7 findings in thread
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Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Truly honoured that my book ‘Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful’ won 2 awards @ the #ICA26 conference: the 2026 Outstanding Book Award of @icahdq.bsky.social & the 2026 Philosophy, Theory and Critique Best Book Award. Grateful to nominators & committee members for the recognition
a photo from the ICA Awards Ceremony, Cape Town, 6 June 2026A photo of the slide announcing the 2026 Outstanding Book Award at the ICA conferencePhoto announcing the 2026 PTC Best Book Award at the ICA26 conference
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Here @deeliu97.bsky.social at #ICA26 presenting work we did with Emillie de Keulenaar mapping civil society actors engaged in platform governance, preliminary coding of thousands of orgs identify distinct styles of engagement, an evolving population, and areas where CSAs have different priorities
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Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I don't normally advertise each panel, but this is a special one. If you're around #ICA26 at noon today, please come join @acsj-ica.bsky.social panel on reflecting on activism/activist scholarship at ICA as a one-year-old division 🥳
Reflections on the Past and Future of Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division
Chairs(s): Hanan Badr (U of Salzburg)
Participant(s): Guobin Yang (U of Pennsylvania)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM; 2.44-2.46 (CTICC1, Lev 2)

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Consolidating a Young Interest Group During Turbulent and Disruptive Times
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Pushing an Activism Research Agenda in Challenging Times
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Recognizing and Fostering Excellent Scholarship in Activism
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Building a Flexible Core: How We Plan a Large and Diverse Body of Submissions on Activism
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Reflections on the Epistemic Trajectory of Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division
Florian Primig; Tamer Farag; Hanan Badr
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Jakob Ohme @dscheykopp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Hi #ica26, me again! If you are in #PolComm and Europe, the ECREA PolComm Section is accepting applications for a new management team. Please consider applying and share with your colleagues. Meet me at ICA PolComm reception tonight if you wanna know more! ecreapoliticalcommunication.com/calls/
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Call for Applications: ECREA Political Communication Section Management Team (2026–2028) The ECREA Political Communication Section is inviting applications for a new Section Management Team. After …
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"I was born for the second time when the Iron Curtain was lifted in 1989" @thanitzsch.bsky.social says in personal and profoundly important Presidential Address on academic freedom at #ICA26, noting attacks in his native Germany as well as the US, Hong Kong, destruction in Gaza, and many other cases
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Even before GenAI, peer review is struggling @zizip.bsky.social suggests, says * quantity of submissions⬆️, quality⬇️ * hard to find reviewers * many poor reviews * increasingly superficial scholarly conversations Stark discussions at #ICA26 panel on "Rethinking Academic Publishing" with top editors
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#ICA26 time is awards time. Congratulations to all journalism studies winners. As I have a special place in my ❤️ for books an extra shout-out to "In the Shadow of the Global North" by J. Siguru Wahutu share.google/HKqSercbP0Ly... "The New Censorship" by Ayala Panievsky share.google/wkLE62YxaUi3...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Interview research from 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧finds concerns over AI-generated misinfo drive "indexical discounting" eroding realism heuristic, many want systemic remedies. @richardfletcher.bsky.social presents work led by @felixsimon.bsky.social @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social at #ICA26 Preprint osf.io/preprints/so...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Power (esp. state), institutional ("games" scholars navigate, including cross-disiplinary translation in university decision-making), and inner vulnerabilities (motivation as scholarship is treated as calling, career, commodity) - Fen Lin offer a way to think about academic vulnerabilities at #ICA26
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“It is one thing to talk about inequality. It is something else to do something about it” @mkraidy.bsky.social says as #ICAA26 kicks off with opening plenary on 'Inequalities and Knowledge Production in Communication', also featuring Ingrid Bachmann, Tanja Bosch, Nicholas Bowman and Aliaa ElShabassy
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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ONLINE FIRST! This article by @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social compares inequalities in #news use in traditional offline and #online news #media environments over time among #internet users in six countries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Inequalities in Offline and Online News Media Environments Across Six Countries: The Role of Social Class and Interest in News
In this article, we present a comparative analysis of inequalities in online and offline news media systems across a strategic sample of six countries. Using survey data from 10 annual Digital News...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The digital news media environment does not only reproduce old class structures. It reinforces them That is the key finding in new paper led by @antoniskalog.bsky.social analyzing social inequalities in offline and online news use across 6 countries over 10 years www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"What do you do in a world where the technology never centers you, the platforms never pay you, and there is no guarantee of visibility? Many newsrooms in the Global Majority have been living in this world for years" @jaemark.co writes, others could learn from them. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/as-a...
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As AI sharpens media’s class divide, lessons from the global majority
"Perhaps it's time to look to organizations that have long been working at the margins as operating models in a more constrained future."
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
“Users don't want more control over their own experience. [They] want to have control over the experience of others [so] no matter how much content moderation I offer, and customize, and add different layers to, they're unlikely to be satisfied.” Sharp observation from @aaron.bsky.team #PlatGovNet
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New report out on use of and perception of generative AI in Denmark, documenting rapid growth in use, more optimism than pessimism, but very differentiated expectations across different sector - with reservations about AI use by public authorities, media, politicians caisa.dk/forskning/ge...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
“Over-moderation [by platforms designated under the DSA] may negatively affect civic discourse and create risks of negative effects on the fundamental right to freedom of expression and information.” That’s not a quote from J.D. Vance or Elon Musk. It is a quote from an EU report 1/5
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Content moderation may be basically “unsolvable from a centralized standpoint, because there's no agreement on what is the problem for which [it] would be the solution. The way we deal with this at Reddit is by devolving the authority to take down content to the users”. Jessica Ashooh/PlatGovNet2025
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Moritz Schramm @schrammmo.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Anyone interested in platform & AI governance check out the third annual PlatGov conference Mon/Tue - all online, free & truly global 🌍🌎🌏⌨️💽🤓 Here’s the program: platgov.net/assets/site/...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This Thanksgiving, professionally, I’m thankful for the opportunity to join the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at @harvard.edu as a Faculty Affiliate shorensteincenter.org/person/rasmu...
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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen - The Shorenstein Center
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
One week till we kick off PlatGovNet 2025, with civil society, industry leaders, practitioners, and scores of researchers coming together to discuss platform governance. Proud that @ucph.bsky.social can help host this online conference. Register here to join us: ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Yesterday, a "Digital Sovereignty Summit" in Berlin that Markus Beckedahl described as "largely a farce" and where Bruna Martins dos Santos described a "feeling [of] utter disappointment" in civil society. 1/4
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Interested in platform governance, a defining issue of our time? Dec 1-2, PlatGovNet is hosting its 2025 online conference. 60+ presentations, conversations with civil society, Reddit, Bluesky. It is free to attend. Program platgov.net/assets/site/... Registration ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"These are all sensible, incremental proposals. [But] if public authorities really want to act they need to commit significant funding. It’s not clear the Democracy Shield represents a real qualitative jump in terms of money". Spoke with RTE about the EU's Democracy Shield www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
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EU Democracy Shield: the slings, arrows of disinformation
Officials say the Democracy Shield is designed to support frontline accession countries but also to galvanise European societies into recognising the threat posed to democracies, writes Tony Connelly.
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
“I have always felt it was important to take research out of academic journals and into the public sphere, to share with people what research has to offer, how it can help them make their own choices”. Wonderful lecture from Sun Sun Lim as she accepts her honorary professorship at U of Copenhagen.
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
What should be distributed to who, how, on what basis, why, and so what? These are six basic questions that must be answered if news is to receive public subsidies. In this piece for @reutersinstitute.bsky.social I outline a possible approach reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n... 1/2
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From taxes to news: How Denmark is rethinking public funding for private publishers
The Nordic country is creating a model to decide which outlets should receive subsidies, how and on what basis. Rasmus Nielsen explains how it could work.
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"Europe is preparing to roll back parts of its landmark digital rules, long seen as global benchmarks for privacy and AI" @ramshajahangir.bsky.social writes, as EU Commission prepares to unveil the “Digital Omnibus” which could reshape GDPR, AI Act, and more. 1/4 www.techpolicy.press/eu-set-the-g...
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EU Set the Global Standard on Privacy and AI. Now It’s Pulling Back | TechPolicy.Press
The draft Digital Omnibus could weaken core data protections and give tech companies more leeway in using European data, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"Conversations about “internet sovereignty” should not mistakenly assume that the exercise of sovereign state power over corporations will necessarily translate into greater agency for its people", @prateekwaghre.com writes www.techpolicy.press/indias-searc...
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India’s Search for Digital Sovereignty | TechPolicy.Press
Prateek Waghre discusses India’s push for tech sovereignty amid volatile US ties, digital dependence, and global shifts in trade.
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Apropos... 1) For all its challenges the BBC is the single most widely used source of news in the UK and is highly and broadly trusted across much of the political spectrum,. See e.g. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/bbc-und... 1/3
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The BBC is under scrutiny. Here’s what research tells about its role in the UK
The BBC is the most widely used source of news in the UK. It has lower reach among the young and the less formally educated.
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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A striking feature of Mamdani's victory is that a democratic socialist whole-heartedly campaigned on arch-capitalist social media platforms, and clearly felt better able to convey what he stood for and wanted via them than by engaging with news media politiken.dk/kultur/medie... 1/3
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Det centrale er ikke, at han vandt, men hvordan han vandt
Medier | Følg med i Politikens dækning af medier og mediebranchen. Fra de store morgenaviser, radio og tv til the dark web, ai og de nyeste sociale medier.
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