What's the role of opinion writing within journalism, including the place of opinion journalism, specifically in the news media, in a world where many of us have many ways of expressing our opinions and reading other’s opinions, including on social media? Host: Rasmus Nielsen https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/prof-rasmus-kleis-nielsen is co-author of the Digital News Report and Director of the Reuters Institute and Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford. His work focuses on changes in the news media, political communication, and the role of digital technologies in both. Guest: Karen Attiah https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah is an award-winning Washington Post columnist, writing on international affairs, culture, and human rights issues. She worked previously at the Associated Press before joining The Post in 2014, first as a Digital Producer and later as Global Opinions Editor.

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What's the point of opinion journalism in the digital age?

In this episode of our Future of Journalism podcast, we look at the news media's role in covering the climate crisis. We look at how newsrooms could be better structured to allow climate reporting to flourish, how to ensure climate reporting is not siloed, and the external challenges that climate reporters and journalism face in the form of disinformation and trolling. Speaker: Wolfgang Blau was the President, International and Chief Operating Officer at Condé Nast, overseeing companies in Asia, Europe and Latin America. Prior to that he was Executive Director of Digital Strategy at The Guardian and he was also Editor-in-chief of Zeit Online. As a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute Wolfgang has been exploring ways to increase journalism's capacity to cover climate change worldwide. Host: Meera Selva is the Deputy Director of the Institute and Director of our Fellowship Programmes. She is an accomplished senior journalist with experience in Europe, Asia and Africa. She is the Deputy Director of the Reuters Institute and the Director of our Journalist Fellowship Programme.

How journalists can better cover the climate crisis

This episode looks at impartiality and news and whether news audiences value journalism that takes particular perspectives on certain issues or news which presents a range of views leaving it up to the public to decide between them. Host: Federica Cherubini is Head of Leadership Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She is an expert in newsroom operations and organisational change, with ten years' experience spanning major publishers, research institutes and editorial networks around the world. Guest: Craig T. Robertson is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. His research focuses on news trust and credibility, fact-checking and verification, and how both partisan attitudes and epistemic beliefs factor into these domains. Find the report at: www.digitalnewsreport.org/2021

Digital News Report 2021. Episode 6. Impartiality unpacked: a study of four countries

This episode looks at public understanding of the financial pressures that the news media is under, how much they are concerned about it, and what they think should be done. Host: Federica Cherubini is Head of Leadership Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She is an expert in newsroom operations and organisational change, with ten years' experience spanning major publishers, research institutes and editorial networks around the world. Guests: Dr Richard Fletcher is a Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute, and Team Leader of the Research Team. He is primarily interested in global trends in digital news consumption, comparative media research, the use of social media by journalists and news organizations, and more broadly, the relationship between technology and journalism. DNR co-author Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford and Professor of Political Communication. His work focuses on changes in the news media, political communication, and the role of digital technologies in both. Find the report at: www.digitalnewsreport.org/2021

Digital News Report 2021. Episode 5. How do people think about the financing of the commercial news media?

This episode focuses on how people engage with local news, and the sources of information, including local news outlets, social media and others, that news audiences use for various topics. Host: Federica Cherubini is Head of Leadership Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She is an expert in newsroom operations and organisational change, with ten years' experience spanning major publishers, research institutes and editorial networks around the world. Guest: Dr Anne Schulz is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She researches questions surrounding news audiences and digital news. She has authored chapters on local news for our Digital News Reports. Find the report at: www.digitalnewsreport.org/2021

Digital News Report 2021. Episode 4: Local news unbundled: where audience value still lies

This episode focuses on findings around perceptions of fairness among different groups including demographic characteristics and political leaning. Authors of the Digital News Report, the most comprehensive study of news consumption trends worldwide, discuss the key findings from this year's report. This episode focuses on findings around perceptions of fairness among different groups including demographic characteristics and political leaning. Host: Federica Cherubini is Head of Leadership Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She is an expert in newsroom operations and organisational change, with ten years' experience spanning major publishers, research institutes and editorial networks around the world. Guest: Dr Richard Fletcher is a Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute, and Team Leader of the Research Team. He is primarily interested in global trends in digital news consumption, comparative media research, the use of social media by journalists and news organizations, and more broadly, the relationship between technology and journalism. Find the report at: www.digitalnewsreport.org/2021

Digital News Report 2021. Episode 3: Perceptions of fair news coverage among different groups

This episode focuses on how people get news about climate change and how this differs across different countries, age brackets and attitudes towards the issue. Authors of the Digital News Report, the most comprehensive study of news consumption trends worldwide, discuss the key findings from this year's report. This episode focuses on how people get news about climate change and how this differs across different countries, age brackets and attitudes towards the issue. Host: Federica Cherubini is Head of Leadership Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She is an expert in newsroom operations and organisational change, with ten years' experience spanning major publishers, research institutes and editorial networks around the world. Guest: Simge Andı is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She works on the Digital News Project, and uses survey and experimental data to study the consumption and sharing of online news. She authored the Digital News Report 2021 section on how people access news on social media. Find the report at: www.digitalnewsreport.org/2021

Digital News Report 2021. Episode 2: How and why do consumers access news on social media?

Authors of the Digital News Report, the most comprehensive study of news consumption trends worldwide, discuss the key findings from this year's report. Authors of the Digital News Report, the most comprehensive study of news consumption trends worldwide, discuss the key findings from this year's report. In this episode we look at the main findings of the report, including how some news organisations have benefitted from a desire for reliable information over the last year and how the pandemic has accelerated shifts to digital, social and mobile environments. Host: Federica Cherubini is Head of Leadership Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She is an expert in newsroom operations and organisational change, with ten years of experience spanning major publishers, research institutes and editorial networks around the world Guests: DNR lead author Nic Newman is a Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and is also a consultant on digital media, working actively with news companies on product, audience, and business strategies for digital transition. He also writes an annual report for the Institute on future media and technology trends. DNR co-author Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford and Professor of Political Communication. His work focuses on changes in the news media, political communication, and the role of digital technologies in both. Find the report at digitalnewsreport.org/2021

Digital News Report 2021. Episode 1: What you need to know

In this podcast we look at how one of the world's leading newsrooms uses data to inform various steps of the newsmaking process in order to engage with audiences and drive subscriptions. In this podcast we look at how one of the world's leading newsrooms uses data to inform various steps of the newsmaking process in order to engage with audiences and drive subscriptions. Guest: Sophie Ho is the News Analytics Assignment Editor at the Washington Post Host: Federica Cherubini is the Head of Leadership Development at the Reuters Institute For more information see the podcast webpage: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/our-podcast-how-use-metrics-understand-your-audience-and-sell-subscriptions

How to use metrics to understand your audience and sell subscriptions

For World Press Freedom Day we look at the pressures on independent journalism in two EU countries In this episode of our podcast we talk to two of our Journalist Fellows about the growing pressures facing journalists and independent news media in Poland and Hungary. We look at the threats of authoritarianism, the weaponisation of advertising revenue, and self-censorship. We also look at levels of support for independent media and what can be done within the industry, and on a political level, to defend media freedoms. The speakers: Jakub Krupa is a Senior Correspondent at the MLex news agency covering data privacy and security, cybersecurity, and telecom regulation as well as Brexit and online harms. Peter Erdelyi is the director of business development at independent Hungarian outlet, 444.hu, whose role involves audience growth, diversifying the business model and funding opportunities, and commissioning special content projects. Host: Our host: Meera Selva is the Deputy Director of the Reuters Institute and the Director of the Journalist Fellowship Programme. Find a full transcript on our website: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/our-podcast-how-press-freedom-threatened-hungary-and-poland

How press freedom is threatened in Hungary and Poland

In this episode of our 'Future of Journalism' podcast, we speak to Nikki Usher about journalism's challenges around equity, diversity and sustainability

Diversity of voices in journalism

In this episode we speak to to three women journalists from Kyrgyzstan, India and Indonesia discuss female representation in the news media, why they got into journalism, and how to ensure women’s voices and interests are heard. In this episode of our Future of Journalism podcast we speak to to three women journalists from Kyrgyzstan, India and Indonesia discuss female representation in the news media, why they got into journalism, and how to ensure women’s voices and interests are heard. Find a full transcript and more information on our website: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review?review_types=14&filtered=Filter Host: Meera Selva, Deputy Director of the Institute and Director of the Journalist Fellowship Programme Speakers: Bermet Talant is a reporter from Kyrgyzstan who, for the last four years, was working at the Kyiv Post, focusing on politics and human rights. Ipsita Chakravarty is Associate Editor of Scroll.in where she supervises coverage of Jammu, Kashmir and North East states. Christine Franciska is the Managing Editor for the Indonesian section of Glance, a lock-screen content platform.

How can we amplify women's voices in journalism?

In this episode of our 'Future of Journalism' podcast, we look at the values that drive a thriving membership model at an Argentinean news site We talk to one of Latin America's most senior journalists Chani Guyot whose news website RED/ACCIÓN runs a successful membership model that goes beyond being a revenue stream. We look at how the news outlet engages with members as part of its journalistic mission, and how listening closely to the needs of their audience is a step towards building trust and empathy and bridging polarisation in society. Find a full transcript and more information on our website: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review?review_types=14&filtered=Filter Guest: Chani Guyot is the CEO and Publisher of Argentinean news site RED/ACCIÓN. He is former Editor-in-Chief of La Nación, one of the country's biggest newspapers. Host: Federica Cherubini is the Head of Leadership Programmes at the Reuters Institute.

How to build a successful value-driven membership model

In this episode of our podcast we delve into our survey of 234 digital leaders in 43 countries to look at the major trends that will influence journalism in the year ahead. In this episode of our podcast we delve into our survey of 234 digital leaders in 43 countries to look at the major trends that will influence journalism in the year ahead. We look at how news organisations are adapting in the face of the pandemic and how they expect to come out of it. We ask what revenue streams will become most important over the next 12 months, and how news organisations will navigate their relationships with social media platforms. We also look at changes in leadership and innovation. Our host is Federica Cherubini the Head of Leadership Development at the Reuters Institute. Our guest is Nic Newman, Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute and lead author of the report Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions 2021.

What should we expect for journalism in 2021?

Following the suspension or barring of Donald Trump by many of the largest social media and tech platforms, after his supporters stormed the Capitol building in January 2021, we explore the issues surrounding these decisions. Following the suspension or barring of Donald Trump by many of the largest social media and tech platforms, after his supporters stormed the Capitol building in January 2021, we explore the issues surrounding these decisions. When should the likes of Facebook and Twitter weigh in on political speech on their platforms? How can these rules be applied fairly and consistently? What are the implications for freedom of expression? And what lessons can we draw on from similar events around the world? Find a full transcript and more information on our website: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review?review_types=14&filtered=Filter Host: Rasmus Nielsen, Director of the Reuters Institute Guest: Nikhil Pahwa, Indian journalist, digital rights activist, and founder of MediaNama, a mobile and digital news portal

Should platforms have the power to ban leaders like Donald Trump?

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