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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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🚨New publication w/Jonathan Anderson! Our analysis of journalistic strategies to correct false information around the 2016 and 2020 US elections is now published in Journalism Studies! 🧵👇
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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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…

ONLINE FIRST! How are American weekly newspaper owners/editors responding to Facebook’s role in local news? Authors @Nick_Mathews + @BenjaminToff spotlight business model implications, and identify how Facebook serves as a local news content competitor. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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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)

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 @BenjaminToff @ruthiepalmer y @rasmus_kleis
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Sewell Chan(@sewellchan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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!…

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'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…

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Benjamin Toff(@BenjaminToff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

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Benjamin Toff(@BenjaminToff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨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!

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🤔 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.
share.hsforms.com/1z-m9isLtTAKP-…

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Benjamin Toff(@BenjaminToff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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!

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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…

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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…

In this excerpt from 'Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism' by @BenjaminToff, @ruthiepalmer and @rasmus_kleis, the authors answer a basic yet elusive question: 'Who are consistent news avoiders?' niemanlab.org/2023/11/so-who…
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