Benjamin Toff
@BenjaminToff
Assistant Professor @umn_hsjmc. I study trust in news, news avoidance, public opinion, and changing media. Formerly Senior Research Fellow @risj_oxford.
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http://benjamintoff.com 29-05-2011 01:31:49
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Congratulations to Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave) on the official publication date of their new book, AVOIDING THE NEWS: RELUCTANT AUDIENCES FOR JOURNALISM. bit.ly/49sXnyE Reuters Institute Columbia Univ Press
Check out this weekend’s On the Media for an interview with me discussing news avoidance and my new Columbia Univ Press book with Ruth Palmer Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave)
🚨New publication w/Jonathan Anderson! Our analysis of journalistic strategies to correct false information around the 2016 and 2020 US elections is now published #openaccess in Journalism Studies! 🧵👇
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Gotta get my end of year chores done to make time for some light holiday reading. Looking forward to this👇new Columbia Univ Press 📚by this super smart trio Benjamin Toff Ruth Palmer Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave) Reuters Institute
Here's my Nieman Lab prediction for this year! It's based on the new book I wrote on news avoidance with Benjamin Toff and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave) niemanlab.org/2023/12/news-a…
ONLINE FIRST! How are American weekly newspaper owners/editors responding to Facebook’s role in local news? Authors Nick Mathews + Benjamin Toff spotlight business model implications, and identify how Facebook serves as a local news content competitor. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Check out Ruth Palmer's Nieman Lab Prediction in which she writes about our new book on news avoidance!
niemanlab.org/2023/12/news-a…
Un párrafo que debería leer cualquier periodista. Quienes evitan las noticias perciben a políticos y a periodistas como figuras indistinguibles
Del libro 'Avoiding the News' de Benjamin Toff Ruth Palmer y Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave)
🚨New article just published online in Digital Journalism with a great collaborator! Summary 🧵below from Nick Mathews 👇
Thanks to support from @report4america, @texastribune will base a full-time journalist in South Texas/Rio Grande Valley for the first time! If you're a reporter with a passion for covering communities, reach out. You'll get to work with Nic Garcia, who is the BEST!…
'Audiences perceive news labeled as AI-generated as less trustworthy, not more, even when articles themselves are not evaluated as any less accurate or unfair.'
Research by Benjamin Toff and Felix M. Simon
osf.io/preprints/soca…
Check out this nice summary from Sarah Scire about my new working paper with Felix M. Simon on the paradox of AI disclosure in journalism. It features real human-generated quotes from both of us!
Or read more about our study here: x.com/_felixsimon_/s…
🚨New publication coming soon with a great collaborator, Hubbard SJMC alum Nick Mathews. Was so great seeing this take shape over time—even if it took a while to get there between Nick’s dissertation defense and two job moves. Excited to see this out in the world very soon!
🤔 Journalists, what workshop topics would help your newsroom in 2024?
API and The Associated Press want to hear from you! Please take this short survey to help us better support your 2024 election coverage needs.
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Check out the 🧵below from my amazing co-author Felix M. Simon about our new working paper. Backstory here: I was giving a talk on trust in news and was asked this question about trust toward AI-generated news. I didn’t know the answer. So we did an experiment!
Many thanks to Nieman Lab for publishing an excerpt from our forthcoming book “Avoiding the News.”
More info here including links to pre-order the rest of the chapters… x.com/benjamintoff/s…
In this excerpt from 'Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism' by Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), the authors answer a basic yet elusive question: 'Who are consistent news avoiders?'
niemanlab.org/2023/11/so-who…