🖨️ I've been asked so much recently about the future of news on Facebook in Australia that I've tried to organise my thoughts in a new blog post.

And I've also finally shared my foreword for Jonathon Hutchinson's new book, about the #NMBC and the 2021 news ban.

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🇮🇹 journalism festival #ijf24 will take place in Perugia this week. Several of our Reuters Institute colleagues will be there.
We've prepared a piece with around 30 talks you should take advantage of.
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📚☕️Start the day with an #25thISOJ research breakfast. Vanessa D Higgins Joyce will be joined by scholars Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, Dr. Gina M. Masullo, Phd., sue robinson and Anya Schiffrin! Reminder: this session is open to those who registered and is in English, without interpretation.

This special issue of The AAPSS guest edited by Nikki Usher (they/them) focuses on what media policy for an informed citizenry should look like in the US

It features leading scholars and journalists such as
Joshua P. Darr Philip Napoli Dr. Cueva Chacón
Sewell Chan & Margaret Sullivan
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Many challenges and problems w/misinformation, but some #fightingmisinformationonline participants asked if there are also reasons for optimism?

Here 3 from Reuters Institute research

1) news outlets rated 'trustworthy' see much more engagement on web & social than untrustworthy 1/3

1) New can help increase resilience to misinformation
2) Beware of optimism bias-whatever their intrinsic value, interventions may not always work the way we think
3) Misinformation often comes from the top!

Three points I shared at #fightingmisinformationonline , links in 🧵 1/4

New paper with Sora Park and the Rise of Mistrust project team on strategies people use to navigate news in the context of low trust. People described a range of different high effort and low effort responses that seem to vary by how much people use news. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Plenty written on what that example of 'occasionally experiment with editing' might say about PR, social media, and the public.

But what about journalism? An instructive moment, and a reminder of the role of what researchers call 'information subsidies' and lack of scrutiny. 1/5

Evidence, engagement and expansion. These are the 3 priorities in Reuters Institute new work on AI and the future of news

We build on work done since 2016 with seed funding from Reuters and in partnership with Thomson Reuters Foundation

📱Our landing page
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-journalism-…
🧵Key details in thread

Evidence, engagement, and expansion. These are the three key priorities in our work on AI and the Future of News at Reuters Institute

With seed funding from Reuters and in partnership with Thomson Reuters Foundation, Marina Adami Tania L. Montalvo and I build on work done since 2016 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/evidence-… 1/7

Only 24% of the top editors across 240 major outlets in 12 markets are women, according to a new factsheet by Amy Ross Arguedas Mitali Mukherjee Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Markets covered: 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧🇧🇷🇩🇪🇫🇮 🇭🇰🇿🇦🇪🇸🇰🇪

📱Read our research in full reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/women-and-lead…
🧶 Key findings in thread #IWD2024

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🚨New paper w Bernhard Clemm: Testing GPT4 on a range of common political science coding tasks in 4 languages. We find generally strong results at a fraction of the time and cost. Also introduce an effective double-code and validate approach for LLM coding journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

We started the #DSA40 Collaboratory Data Access Tracker to collect rejected, pending, and accepted data access requests under #DSA40 - please list your experience and share with colleagues widely Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social Lukas Seiling / @[email protected] European New School @[email protected] Weizenbaum-Institut
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🚨 48% of major publishers like NYT, BuzzFeed, and WSJ blocked OpenAI’s crawlers while 24% blocked Google’s AI crawlers from scraping their content last year. No website reversed its stance by unblocking either crawlers, study finds.

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A report out Thursday from Reuters Institute finds that nearly half (48%) of the top news publishers across 10 countries were blocking OpenAI from crawling their sites as of the end of 2023.

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A summary of a conference presentation on work in progress looking at news audience polarisation over time with Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Alessio Cornia - hopefully extending our original analysis of national differences: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…