iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 14h

We are thrilled to welcome our new Fellows: 🇯🇴🇦🇺 Khaled Al Khawaldeh 🇫🇮 Tatu Blomqvist 🇯🇲 Carol Francis 🇸🇬 Magdalene Fung 🇪🇸 María de la Iglesia 🇺🇸 Natalie Jonas 🇺🇸 Mamatjan Juma 🇸🇬 Michelle Martin 🇦🇹 Florian Schmidt Click for bios and projects reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/nine-jo...

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Nine journalists are joining the Reuters Institute's fellowship programme in October 2026

Our first cohort of the academic year will explore the future of journalism through a programme of seminars, events and a personal project.

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 14h

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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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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Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My latest for @economist.com: AI writing is taking over politics. 10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada. Link: www.economist.com/britain/202... And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders

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taharoni.bsky.social @taharoni.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excited to share our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report with @waqasejaz.bsky.social @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social looking at how audiences define news in today's digital environment: What counts as news, and what doesn't across six countreis 🇦🇷🇯🇵🇳🇴🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸 👇

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Out today. Our new report looks at how people define news, how that's changing and the factors shaping these changes. Some key findings in thread. It's based on: 1. media diaries and in-depth interviews in 🇦🇷 🇳🇴 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 2. online surveys in 🇦🇷 🇯🇵 🇳🇴 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/changing-def...

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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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Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

While I cannot be at @ecreaeu.bsky.social this year to co-present, please check out our AI work presented by great colleagues @richardfletcher.bsky.social, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social and @waqasejaz.bsky.social.

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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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Jesper Stromback @jesperstromback.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Feeling very happy that the new book "Mainstream news media trust. Antecedents, consequences, and remedies", edited together with @naylafawzi.bsky.social and @yarivtsfati.bsky.social, has now been published! The book is Open Access and can be downloaded at www.routledge.com/Mainstream-N...

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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 political conditions and consequences. Dra...

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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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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.

A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)

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Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🚨New Science Advances🚨 Untrustworthy sources on Facebook and Instagram in 2020: Concentrated exposure but no attitudinal effects www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... -Exposure very low but highly concentrated -Reducing exposure by ~70% for months had no measurable effects *even among frequent consumers*

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Traditional sources have seen a significant decline in news use in recent years. This chapter from @richardfletcher.bsky.social looks at the reasons behind this disengagement, which are different for newspapers, TV and radio news Click to read buff.ly/cDt240f

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The different reasons why television, newspapers, and radio are losing their news audiences

Almost all markets we cover in the Digital News Report survey have seen a decline in the use of offline news sources in the last decade. Printed newspapers, radio, and television have all experienced…

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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My chapter in this year's @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Digital News Report looks at the different reasons why the news audiences for radio, TV, and newspapers are shrinking.

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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

New data on the efficacy of the Australia social media ban are worse than I thought. A new study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reports that over 85% of teens under 16 are still using social media. The 'friction' introduced by the ban seems very minimal. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

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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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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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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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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Call me old fashioned, but I think that multiple choice survey items designed to measure someone’s knowledge of an area should contain 1 unambiguously correct answer and 3 unambiguously wrong ones – not 3 that are sort of right and 1 that’s mostly likely to be the one the researchers picked.

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Camila Mont'Alverne @camilambpp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Our article "Ritual Reinforcement: Habit, Emotion, and Identity as Attributes of Trust in News", led by the brilliant @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social, won the 2025 Bob Franklin Journal Article Award. Thanks to Amy for her outstanding work (as usual) leading this! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjo...

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2025 Bob Franklin Journal Article Award

Explore the article collection: 2025 Bob Franklin Journal Article Award. Published in Journalism Studies.

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NBER @nber.org · 10/05/2026

When the value of an activity comes from peer participation, bans only work if enough peers comply. Research suggests this isn't happening with the new Australian social media ban, from Bursztyn, Duckworth, Jiménez-Durán, Leonard, Milojević, Roth, and Sunstein www.nber.org/papers/w35162

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🎙Today we published a new report authored by Nic Newman exploring the changing nature of news podcasting. It looks at the shift from narrative to conversational podcasts, what's driving a pivot to video, monetisation and more. Find it here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/changing-sha...

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 01/05/2026

Stunning footage from a beautiful #MayDay 🌅 🎬 Instagram | UmairAtOxford

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Back to one of my regular moans about democracy measurement - present bias. According to VDEM the UK's 'level of liberal democracy' is now lower than any time since 1945 - a period of time in which business owners and graduates had multiple votes and during which the Troubles occurred. WRONG.

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Green Templeton College @greentempleton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

South landscaping at the Radcliffe Observatory is now complete 🌿 A new shared space at the heart of the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, made possible by the Stephen A. Schwarzman Foundation. Work continues on Phase 1, including a new East Wing entrance and step-free access.

Aerial photograph of Radcliffe Observatory and completed works

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Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

One of my favorites paper got published 🤓 It covers a lot of ground and it’s the best summary of my views on misinformation and what to do about it. Give it a read :) 🔓 osf.io/preprints/ps... 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 30/03/2026

The lawn outside the Radcliffe Camera had a trim today 🌱 No, it’s not AI. Designed and carefully cut by James from our University Parks Estates team. 📷 Instagram | Jimigk13

Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford with a freshly mown lawn featuring intricate curved stripe patterns around the circular building.

Ground-level view of striped grass patterns on the lawn beside the Radcliffe Camera, showing alternating light and dark green lines stretching across the grass.

A lawn mower on the striped grass outside the Radcliffe Camera, highlighting the precision-cut pattern with people and historic college buildings in the background.

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PSA Media and Politics Group @psampg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

QR code link to the preprint on the final slide is an impressive level of organisation! You can read 'Between Concern and Epistemic Vigilance' here osf.io/preprints/so...

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PSA Media and Politics Group @psampg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We now have Felix Simon presenting three-country research with @reutersinstitute.bsky.social colleagues on how audiences react to AI-generated misinformation, and the strategies they use to mitigate risks. Interesting use of deliberative interviews to see how people reflect on example cases.

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PSA Media and Politics Group @psampg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Good morning #PSA26 :-) We're about to kick off with a panel on Mapping the Misinformation Crisis, with papers on disinformation and misinformation

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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

ICYMI: our report on younger news audiences was published yesterday. Key findings in the thread below.

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Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

New report on young audiences out today with Craig T. Robertson, @mitalilive.bsky.social, and @richardfletcher.bsky.social, based on over a decade of Reuters Institute research. Key findings and links to the report in this thread.

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Today we published a report on younger news audiences. Authored by Craig T. Robertson, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it's based on DNR and other surveys Full report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understandin... Seven findings in thread

group of young people sitting on stone steps, focused on their smartphones. Below the image, text reads: "March 2026. Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change. A new report by Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Mitali Mukherjee and Richard Fletcher."

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Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Yesterday, I hosted a panel on AI and Society as part of the Reuters Institute’s conference on AI and news. We had a fab cast with Natali Helberger (UvA), Max Kasy (Oxford), Keegan McBride (TBI) and Carina Prunkl (Inria & Oxford), and an impossibly large set of questions.

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Simona Bisiani @simonabisiani.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A historic moment for local journalism in the UK: direct state funding is finally happening. I’m especially glad to see: - up to £12m going to local media through a new fund; - my research for @publicinterestnews.org.uk cited along the way. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...

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New UK state funding of up to £12m for local media

The Government will pay up to £12m funding to local media outlets over the next two years to support innovation and help fill "news deserts".

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The Ultimate Picture Palace @uppcinema.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

To mark the start of our campaign to Save the UPP we recreated a photo from the early days of the cinema. Thanks to everyone who braved the wind to join us, including our young supporters from East Oxford Primary School and @anneliesedodds MP. Sign our petition: www.change.org/p/save-the-u...

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The Ultimate Picture Palace @uppcinema.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Today we launch our Save the UPP campaign to persuade our landlord Oriel College to let us stay where we belong. Please sign our petition here: ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-u... Thanks very much to BBC South Today for telling our story: 👀 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #BBCsouthnews @bbcoxford

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Campaign launched to save Oxford's oldest cinema

Ultimate Picture Palace needs a longer lease to fund renovations but there are no plans to extend it.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social): We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys. Short version: It mostly doesn’t. w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social URL: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Last week the story was that TikTok censored anti-Trump/ICE/Pretti videos after the U.S. ownership change. We investigated with a large set of US TikTok data and found some interesting results, short thread...

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Sol Messing @solmg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Bottom line: We found no systematic evidence of political censorship on TikTok post-restructuring at this point. A server outage better explains the data. But the story isn't over, and platforms need to provide the public more transparency.

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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 30/01/2026

🤖 | NEW REPORT: Where do AI tools like ChatGPT get their news from? How biased are they towards certain outlets? And how transparent are they about commercial relationships with publishers? Our new IPPR report answers those questions. Read here: www.ippr.org/articles/ais...

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Michael Scharkow @mscharkow.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Short announcement before the data get too old: ccsmainz.github.io/platformnews/. With 571 news outlets on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram across 46 countries, matching the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social DNR. Computational analyses on topics, platformization, diversity, etc. Feedback welcome.

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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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