Annual Report 2017-2018 Contents Annual Report 2017-2018
01 Preface 04 The Year in Review Director’s Report RISJ International Impact and Influence Bringing the World in
12 The Journalist Fellowship Programme Improving the Standards of International Journalism Fellows’ Focus: Global Issues, Fresh Perspectives Journalist Fellows 2017/18 Fellows’ Voices
30 Research and Publications RISJ Research The European Journalism Observatory Digital News Report 2018 Research Projects Developing RISJ Research Publications Visiting Fellows
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Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 00 Preface Alan Rusbridger Monique Villa Chair, Steering Committee CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Only the most pollyannaish of media between fellows, and between the group The media landscape has transformed But it has also never been a more watchers could think of 2017/8 as a and the outside guests who come to itself at such speed in the last 20 exhilarating time to be a journalist. good year for the news business. talk to them. years that it is difficult to make sense And that is because there’s a growing ©Ben Robinson of the continual revolution of which thirst for ground-breaking, investigative, Journalists continue to be murdered Then there is the powerhouse of research we are all part. The Reuters Institute world-class journalism that cuts through around the world at a rate of around one a and academics who bring such clear and plays such a crucial role in helping the chaos. It informs. It empowers. It week. Newspapers are closing and reporters fresh thinking to a huge range of subjects. There editors and reporters make sense of what changes lives. thrown out of work even as the West Coast giants is the wider Oxford community of philosophers, political is happening, and to navigate the many challenges continue to swell in profits, if not users. As the new scientists, technologists, lawyers and human rights they face all over the world. This is why the Thomson Reuters Foundation funds economic realities of news bite harder, so governments, experts who have been regularly engaging with some of RISJ – one of the world’s most powerful and respected oligarchs and their less fastidious friends are learning the biggest West Coast companies as they grapple with centres driving journalism excellence. As the world has new methods of ‘influence’. the formidable challenges that have emerged in recent changed, the Institute has changed too, not only to keep times, and which will surely continue to surface. pace, but to stay ahead of the curve. You need only to So, no, it is not the most natural thing in the world to look at the Digital News Report - launched in 2012 - that attempt a cheerful account of the past 12 months. But The gathering in September of so many alumni of the has become the industry Bible used to benchmark there are glimmers of hope. If 2018 was the year the 35-year fellowship programme was testimony to the digital news trends. world woke up to Facebook’s capacity for manipulation it loyalty and affection our graduates feel towards was also the year Facebook woke up to the problem and Reuters and Oxford. This is thanks to the stellar leadership of the Institute began to deal with it. If 2018 was the year we learned we under David Levy, who leaves us after ten years. When had a President who was serially careless with the truth, We were sorry when, after 10 years, David Levy decided David first started, he had three members of staff. Now it was also the year extraordinary journalists rose to the it was time to step down as Director. His decade running there are over 20 employees, including 10 post-doc challenge of exposing the lies and evasions. RISJ has been an extremely happy and creative one. research fellows, producing 15 original pieces of research He has put the Institute on a stable footing and helped each year. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen has brilliantly directed There is, in short, no simple narrative of the way news build a global reputation for research and pragmatic the research these last few years and now replaces David is going at the moment. The great disruption of the interventions into the great media issues of our day. as Director. His fast and powerful analysis and great past dozen years or so continues to howl through the authority makes him the perfect successor. industry, bringing chaos, confusion and opportunities Equally, we were delighted that Prof Rasmus Kleis in its wake. Nielsen – formerly Director of Research – should have The Institute’s Journalist Fellowship Programme agreed to step up to the role of overall Director. He has – now in its 35th year – has welcomed some of the The Reuters Institute is a very good vantage point from won a huge international reputation, increasingly sought best journalists in the world, who have gone on to which to observe this dramatic revolution in journalism. out for the clarity and depth of his work. win multiple awards for their first-class reporting – It is a place to ponder; to reflect; to test new ideas; to testament to the support, solidarity and inspiration collect data; to analyse trends; to think big; to meet Thanks to all our staff in Norham Gardens for their offered by RISJ. fellow pioneers; to make global comparisons. tireless work in the cause of journalism and to all those who, in ways large and small, contribute to the work we When free and independent journalism thrives, society Every year a new cohort of journalist fellows arrives do. It has never been more important. thrives too. Good journalism is under attack everywhere. from all over the world and we are reminded again of Some institutions play an important role in reminding the quality, bravery and resourcefulness of the best in everyone of journalists’ mission, and it’s the Reuters our profession. They come to do their own research, but Institute that leads the pack.
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001 Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 2 The Year in Review
Riot police arrive at a press conference due to be addressed by opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa, ordering journalist out of the venue in Harare, Zimbabwe, August 3, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 4 Director’s Report David Levy
I arrived as Reuters Institute It has been a real privilege to run the Institute over Director in September 2008, just the past decade. I remain as enthusiastic as on my first day about our mission to connect rigorous in time for the 25th anniversary research with practice and have been honoured to reunion of our Journalist have occupied this premier vantage point from which Programme. Ten years on I am to learn from, engage with, and I hope improve, the writing my final introduction as understanding of and prospects for journalism across the Director as we are preparing to welcome globe. I am always impressed and humbled by the courage over 130 journalist fellows back to Oxford to and commitment of our journalist fellows, especially the increasing number for whom journalism is a dangerous occupation. It is their celebrate our 35th anniversary. passion which informs my answers to sceptics who question whether journalism has a future.
This past year has been one of continuing progress at the Institute with enormously grateful to the contributions of the very distinguished Above: Capital Gazette staffer the arrival of Meera Selva, herself a former fellow, as the first full-time members of our Advisory Board and Editorial Committee and Pat Furgurson takes part in a Director of the Fellowship Programme, and Alexandra Borchardt as the many different sponsors of the Institute. This year’s Digital candlelight vigil held near the Director of Leadership Programmes and creator of a series of short News Report was supported by 14 different sponsors and we are Capital Gazette, the day after a gunman killed five people inside executive courses, together with a new commitment to increasing our delighted that earlier this year Google extended their support the newspaper's building in visibility marked by the appointment of Caroline Lees as our first Head to the Summer of 2020. Facebook also made their first grant to Our mission is to connect Annapolis, Maryland, U.S., June 29, of Communications. Their arrival, along with the continued invaluable us for a new project on Innovation in Newsrooms. Finally, I am rigorous research with 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis practice work of our Administrator, Kate Hanneford-Smith and Rasmus Kleis grateful for the commitment and dedication of our staff without Nielsen as Director of Research, has strengthened what is a very which we could only deliver a fraction of our ambitions. Left: Marty Baron delivering the Memorial Lecture. collaborative Senior Management Team. ©Bernard Galewski A lot has changed in the past decade. The Institute has grown Everyone at the Institute will have their own, but my personal high enormously, our staffing has tripled and funding quadrupled, Below: Denise Lievesley points for this year are many and varied. They include Marty Baron’s we have strengthened the fellowship programme, established introducing the 'Power of remarkable Reuters Memorial lecture, ‘When a President Wages a substantial research team, and increased our impact on Platforms' inaugural lecture at Green Templeton College. War on a Press at Work’; Nic Newman’s leadership of the 2018 Digital journalism and the news industry. I am delighted to be handing ©KarlGrupe/TheMangoLab News Report and its inclusion for the first time of trust scores for over to Rasmus Kleis Nielsen as my successor. As I do so I am major news organisations across all 37 countries; Rasmus Kleis pleased that thanks to the efforts of our dedicated staff, and the Nielsen’s inaugural lecture on the ‘Power of Platforms’ as Oxford’s support of our many sponsors and friends across the globe, the first Professor of Political Communication; Lucy Küng’s roadmap for Institute’s reputation and reach are higher than ever. Any new organisational transformation in ‘Going Digital’; the quality of the Director will of course set their own direction but I hope that he attendees and exchanges at our annual closed door Editor and CEO will feel he has a solid foundation on which to move forward. forum and our new Oxford Perspectives programmes; as well as the many achievements of our research team and the breadth of industry experience and insight represented by our journalist fellows and reflected in their papers.
In Oxford RISJ benefits particularly from the very engaged support of I am always impressed and our Chair, Alan Rusbridger, Denise Lievesley, who as Principal of Green Templeton College has strengthened the links between the Institute humbled by the courage and our College home, and Louise Fawcett, Head of the Department and commitment of our of Politics and International Relations, as well as all the members of journalist fellows our Steering Committee. We are very fortunate that Monique Villa, CEO of our core funder the Thomson Reuters Foundation, continues The Year in Review Year The to offer so much support and encouragement for our work and we are in Review Year The
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7 Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 8 Bringing the World in Executive Education and Leadership Development at the Reuters Institute Director of Leadership Programmes Alexandra Borchardt These courses are also shortcuts to finding out what doesn’t work
Running an open course is what ‘Oxford Perspectives’ is part of the strategy to open But for the participants these courses are also shortcuts to finding out One finding derived from these classes will inform future programmes, it must feel like to compose a up the Institute. On the one hand, we want to show what doesn’t work. One media manager told the story about how they research, and presentations, and it can be summed up in this single what we have to offer: strong research and valuable moved all the developers to an enticing, state of the art building, to headline: ‘It’s the people, stupid!’ Journalism grapples with new piece of music: you come up insights for newsroom and media managers who attract talent among IT specialists, only to find out that this promoted technologies, challenged business models, diminishing trust, and with a melody and a rhythm, are struggling with all the challenges the industry an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ mentality and prevented much needed teamwork. increasing political pressures. It is constantly confronted with new put it all in a score, and select the is confronted with. On the other hand, we want to The intimate environment at the Institute – our seminars range trends and new trends gone old. But it is the people who have to make instruments. Then the musicians foster connections between decision-makers and lead between eight and 14 attendees – helps participants all this work. Steering newsrooms and media companies show up, it all comes together, you informed debates that we in turn can learn from. And we to open up and be realistic, a very different through these profound changes is a huge management listen. And when you are lucky, it sounds want to do all of this on an international scale. Because to find atmosphere from industry conferences where challenge. Our executive education is designed to out about best practice, you have to go beyond the known and expected. everybody presents their shiny new things help industry leaders deal with it. just right. Our new series of seminars, ‘Oxford and success stories. And if stories of things Perspectives – Envisioning the Newsroom in We had participants from as far away as Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago, gone wrong prevent others from making 2020’ which began in the autumn of 2017 has from as diverse media outlets as the tabloid Sun and traditional public costly mistakes, the money invested in the been such a composition. We set the agenda, broadcasters like German BR or Finnish YLE. And we led sessions on courses is well spent. subjects as different as ‘Driving growth with data’, ‘Managing cultural invite speakers, and then senior journalists and Below: A photographer walks rising his camera to change’, ‘Motivating millennials’, and ‘The fake news debate’. media leaders from all over the world show up protest during a march to demand information about and fill it with life. And it feels just right. Right: Nic Newman presenting at Oxford a missing local, freelance photojournalist Vladjimir Together with our Editor-in-Chief and CEO Forums and tailored Perspectives ‘Envisioning the Newsroom in 2020’ Legagneur, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 28, 2018. classes for media companies, open courses bring in an abundance ©Bernard Galewski REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares of experience that informs our research and our public-speaking engagements. From one participant we learned that a data scientist in his newsroom developed a gender bot that tells authors about the male/female ratio in their coverage – a simple tool that has drawn lots of interest when talking about it at conferences. Another one told us about a bi-weekly questionnaire he sends out to all his staff to ‘take the temperature of the newsroom’ and monitor if people are happy We want to foster enough to give their best at work. Sometimes small things make the connections between biggest difference. decision-makers
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A young hunter rests next to his tamed golden eagle during an annual hunters competition at Almaty hippodrome, Kazakhstan February 9, 2018. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 12 Improving the Standards of International Journalism Meera Selva Director of the Journalist Fellowship Programme
In my great journey at RISJ, I witnessed this incredible Babel around the table, 15 countries and their voices thinking about the survival of good journalism. Maria
At the end of my first year The fellows who have come this year bring battle The result has been a lively year of international as Director of the Journalist scars from the front line of journalism. We have discussion and debate between journalists and had fellows from Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine, Hong academics about the future of the industry. Fellowship programme, I am Kong, and Mexico, among others, all talk about life reminded again just what the on the front line of journalism, dealing with ever This global conversation would not have been Reuters Institute contributes to the harsher press freedom laws, harassment and arrest. possible without the generosity of our sponsors: global media landscape. All the fellows have had to deal with misinformation, with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Mona Megalli shrinking newsroom budgets, and distracted audiences. Fellowship, and the Wincott Foundation have supported the programme for years, while But during their time here, they have found ways to talk about these the Anglo American Foundation and Google issues, and to deal with their challenges. And there have been stories of Digital News Fellowship have helped us bring innovation too, from visual storytelling on mobile phones to the use of journalists doing cutting edge work in the field satellite imagery in investigative journalism. to the Institute.
The fellows have also engaged directly with the media in London, Thanks also to the BBC, the Austria Press with visits to the BBC, Reuters, Monocle, and the Financial Times, Agency, Fritt Ord, Helsingen Sanomat supplementing the seminars and talks they attended in Oxford. Foundation, the ABC, Lion Rock, and the Committee to Project Journalists for their I’ve learned more from my It is more important than ever that the journalist fellows use their ongoing support. group of journalists from all time here to gain connections, knowledge, and insights that they can take back to their newsrooms. The researchers at the Reuters Institute Green Templeton College has, as ever, anchored over the world than during my have gone out of their way to work with the fellows, to suggest reading the fellowship programme. The journalist years of studying journalism. materials, help them with methodology, and talk about their findings. fellows are lucky enough to be members of the Emma-Leena college during their time in Oxford and value the conversation, the intellectual life, and quiet spaces to work that they find there.
The journalist fellowship is now 35 years old. The journalists who have taken part in it have gone back to their jobs, energised, with new ideas and new friendships. As the news gets global and the media fragments, the connections made at the Reuters Institute matter more than ever and I am delighted I can play a part in fostering them.
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news unsavoury to those in power either never sees How to Rebuild Trust for the Malaysia and the World’s the light of day or those who dared to expose them do Media in the Post-Truth Era First Anti-Fake News Bill not. Those that publish unsavoury news have had their Sevhil Musaieva Ching Yee Choo publishing licence suspended and some eventually shut down. The less financially detrimental type of censorship After Maidan, the pro-EU protests in 2014, Ukrainian journalism faced Malaysia holds the distinction of being the first in the world to includes directives from the Home Ministry on what can new challenges: the annexation of the territory, military actions in the enact an Anti-Fake News Bill. As I grew to understand more about or cannot make it into print; sometimes the media self-censors east of the country, Russian propaganda, and an all-out information misinformation from the seminars at the Reuters Institute, back to circumvent the potential censure from the ministry officials war. The public lost their faith in the media. Independent outlets in Malaysia, a bill that claimed to counter the problem was rushed monitoring them. were accused of being unpatriotic, biased, and overly negative. The through the Parliament in April 2018. Even as it was being passed, authorities played on this, launching campaigns to discredit individual many believed that the government was gearing up to use the law to Since its enactment, the Anti-Fake News law has been used on a media through pro-governmental muzzle dissidents, especially members from the opposition political Danish national who was found guilty for claiming that the police was bloggers and bots. The media parties, ahead of the general elections in May. slow to respond to the shooting of a Hamas member in a YouTube in Ukraine, no matter how video. He was jailed for a week and fined RM10,000. Although a motion authoritative it is, hasn’t a While Malaysia has its fair share of false news and propaganda spread to challenge the law by a local online publication was rejected by the monopoly on truth and news through various social media platforms, the government has always High Court, the foreigner may potentially be the last person to be any more. It is no longer a place employed similar, if not more sophisticated counter measures to charged under the Act as the new Communications and Multimedia to seek expert knowledge, a deal with the spread of such information. Websites can be blocked Minister has now repealed the law. universal reference book in which by internet service providers under the orders of the Malaysian there are answers to all the Communications and Multimedia questions. InMind, a Kiev-based Commission. Other methods include polling company, conducted employing distributed denial of service a survey for Internews that attacks which forces the websites offline, found that only 54% of people and/or having cyber troopers cultivate trusted the news on national TV and propagate misinformation online. channels. Two years ago, this figure was 61%. The media in Malaysia was already muzzled and self-censored before the So does the media have a future? advent of this new law. The country I am sure it does have a future, has a selection of laws used against the and also a very clear goal and a media, including the Printing Presses and social mission – to help a person Publications Act and Security Offences to survive in a storm of imperfect (Special Measures) Act, to make sure information. I have used my time at the Reuters Institute to find ways of helping the media rebuild itself, to find viable business models, and to rebuild this trust.
Above: Activists and supporters of Ukrainian nationalist parties and movements burn the Russian state flag, which was seized from the office of the Russian Centre of Science and Culture, during a protest in Kiev, Ukraine February 17, 2018. Above: Malaysia’s former prime minister Najib Razak arrives to give a statement to the REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in Putrajaya, Malaysia May 22, 2018. Picture Right: People attend a rally organized by supporters of EU taken May 22, 2018 REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin integration at Maidan Nezalezhnosti or Independence Square
The Journalist Fellowship Programme Fellowship Journalist The Right Members of the media wait outside the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Programme Fellowship Journalist The in central Kiev, December 8, 2013. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich headquarters in Putrajaya, Malaysia, July 3, 2018. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin
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We had reported for years on corruption at the top and Indeed, the terrain is often treacherous for investigative journalists in It’s Tough, But there are there is no doubt that investigative journalists played a the continent, but there are glimmers of hope. In South Africa, when Glimmers of Hope pivotal role in the eventual dismissal of a man who was the country seemed to be facing a culture of impunity under President Ntibinyane Ntibinyane once considered the ‘untouchable man’. It is clear that Jacob Zuma, it was a small group of investigative journalists who stood Opposite page: Members of the media watch South a new breed of investigative journalists in Africa is asking up and exposed his alleged corrupt relations with a wealthy family. Africa President Jacob Zuma’s statement on a mobile Preparing a high-quality, high-impact in-depth investigative tough questions and demanding more accountability from Exposés by these journalists fanned widespread popular anger that device in Pretoria, South Africa February 14, 2018. story in Africa can be daunting and at times demoralising. The costs leaders than ever before. led Zuma’s party to force him to resign in February 2018, a year before REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko are too high, and the rewards most of the time are little. While in the his term came to an end. In Ghana, two years ago, an undercover Below: Members of the media gather outside a hotel developed world, investigative journalism can force a leader to resign But we must remember that investigative journalists in Africa are investigative reporter exposed 34 judges of the lower and high courts where members of the African National Congress (ANC) from office in shame, the same is not true in many African countries. often the target of those that they report on. They are subjected to who were soliciting bribes to influence justice. Of the 34 judges, 20 National Executive Committee are meeting to decide the attacks, intimidation, arrest, and prosecution by the state. According to have been removed from office while the rest are currently fate of President Jacob Zuma, in Pretoria, South Africa, As part of the INK Center for Investigative Journalism in Botswana, I Committee for the Protection of Journalists, over 60 journalists were on suspension. February 12, 2018. REUTERS/James Oatway have spent years looking closely at our government. And in April, in languishing in African prisons as of January 2018. Yet despite these the middle of my fellowship at the Reuters Institute, the President grim statistics, the continent continues to produce men and women Ian Khama stepped down. A few weeks later, the country’s head of with mind-blowing enthusiasm and fantastic intensity to hold intelligence Isaac Kgosi was dismissed from office. leaders accountable. The Journalist Fellowship Programme Fellowship Journalist The Programme Fellowship Journalist The
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Tatenda Prosper The Dangerous Game: Relations between Zimbabwe’s Chitagu Independent Media and ZANU PF Country of origin: Zimbabwe Place of work: The Newsday This is a qualitative study of how two of Zimbabwe’s biggest and only daily Position at work: Journalist, privately owned papers, The Newsday and The Daily News, covered the succession Masvingo Correspondent issue in President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party. The period looked at was Sponsor: Thomson Reuters from 1 January to 31 December 2017, when internal factions in ZANU PF were Foundation vigorously jostling to succeed Mugabe; the soft coup deposed him in November Brazil is at War on Many shutdown because of a two-week truckers’ strike, who and his former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa came in as the new dared question the rise in fuel prices. Crises of political president. The study looked at how the two papers – once sworn enemies of the Fronts representation for a government with a record-low ruling party – slowly went to bed with their former tormentors, and how they Maria C. Esperidião popularity shared the headlines with food shortages. framed the succession issue in the party and which sides they were taking Protests called for return to military dictatorship. and why. Brazil, the world’s fourth-largest democracy, the nation of soccer and samba, is fighting an undeclared war. Meanwhile, as the country prepares for a presidential election, the country’s electoral body, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, announced a An eye opening, enriching and The numbers are astonishing. Brazil had 62,517 murders in 2016. This is crackdown against the rise of fake news. It seems that 2018 is making very refreshing experience 30 times more than the total of homicides in the whole of Europe. 70% history but for all the wrong reasons. of the victims were people of colour. 786,870 people have died during 15 years. This is more than the deaths in Iraq in the same period and the civil war in Syria. Since June 2013, the country has been rocked by protests. Ching Yee Choo Where is the Money? The Perennial Question of Country of Origin: Malaysia Under the umbrella of the Vinegar Funding Media in the Face of Eroding Media Freedom Place of work: Freelance uprising people have taken to the Journalist streets to protest against corruption, Many independent media outlets in Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Australia are Sponsor: Thomson Reuters high taxation, and poor social services. seeking to diversify their revenue streams in order to withstand the economic Foundation pressures of falling digital advertising and changing news consumer habits. I came to the Reuters Institute to This has led to alternative ways of rethinking the business model that funds research the coverage of the Zika journalistic endeavours in the Asia Pacific region. This study is about the link syndrome, and to highlight the tragedy between the freedom of the press to operate and the need for diversification of of poor and black women who were revenue streams in order to maintain that freedom. most affected by the outbreak. But there were plenty of other stories to tell about Brazil.
In February 2018, a presidential Mark Corcoran Satellite Journalism: The Big Picture emergency decree allowed a military Country of origin: Australia intervention in Rio de Janeiro, a Place of work: Australian A new space race now is under way, led by technology disruptors who challenge decision that stopped the Broadcasting Corporation the long-established order of the aerospace industry. Hundreds of small satellites country from voting any Position at work: Senior Producer, are already in orbit, thousands more are planned for launch in the next few years. Above: A demonstrator holds a banner constitutional amendments and Foreign Correspondent programme Journalists have also been quick to exploit these new opportunities. Satellite which reads “Who ordered to kill Marielle?” sparked anger in civil society. In Sponsor: Australian Broadcasting images are now at the centre of stories on human rights abuses, environmental as she walks past a police officer during March 2018, Rio city councillor Corporation (ABC) degradation, natural disasters, military build-ups, secret missile and nuclear a rally against the shooting of Rio de testing. As this capability evolves at extraordinary speed, government regulators, and activist Marielle Franco was Janeiro city councilor Marielle Franco in lawyers, and civil liberties experts are struggling to keep up. This paper will murdered. Four bullets in her Mare slums complex, which was her home explore the capabilities and complications of satellite imagery and journalism. head silenced a voice against community, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March racism, violence, and impunity. 18, 2018. REUTERS/Ricardo Morae
In April 2018, former president Left: Demonstrators hold a banner that Lula was arrested following a reads: "There's no democracy with political controversial trial, unleashing prisoners" in support of former Brazilian a wave of anger including President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in
The Journalist Fellowship Programme Fellowship Journalist The against mainstream media. In May 2018, the country entered into a Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 6, 2018. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian Programme Fellowship Journalist The
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Maria C. Esperidião First Draft of an Epidemic: How Key Media Players Kemal Göktaş Reporting Human Rights Violations in Turkey Country of origin: Brazil Framed Zika Country of origin: Turkey Place of work: TV Globo, Brazil Place of work: Cumhuriyet, Turkey This study looked at the development and decline of the Turkish media, and how Position at work: Foreign News In late 2015, Brazil was facing one of the biggest political crises in the country’s Position at work: Correspondent journalists have coped with the country’s turbulent politics. A survey of Turkish Producer and Editor history. It was precisely around this time that rumours began circulating about an Sponsor: Thomson Reuters journalists was conducted along with content analysis on the coverage of human Sponsor: Thomson Reuters unusual upsurge in the birth of babies with brain malformations. Shocking images Foundation rights violations in four Turkish newspapers spanning the political spectrum. The Foundation of tiny-headed newborns were brought into living rooms across the world. This findings show all journalists, including those working for pro-government outlets, appeared to be the starting bell for yet another frightening epidemic in a tropical fear prosecution for their work, and frequently self-censor their writing. paradise that was preparing to host the Olympic Games. In this ‘exotic’ setting, a mosquito needs only bite a pregnant woman to seriously jeopardise her pregnancy. This paper shows that risk and uncertainty were the main frames adopted by CNN, BBC, and Al-Jazeera in reporting on Zika. It seems that the virus lost its relevance once it was no longer a global outbreak. Dahlia Kholaif Years After ‘Facebook Youth’ Rattled Egypt’s Regime: Country of origin: Egypt Sinai Netizens Take on the Silence Place of work: Freelance journalist In the months leading to Egypt’s 2011 mass protests, which toppled the country’s Sponsor: Mona Megalli 30-year-old regime, cyber-activists were largely celebrated. Mubarak-era mass media embraced bloggers and netizens and welcomed their bids for social, and to Bettina Figl Bigger is Not Always Better: What We Can Learn about a lesser extent, political reform. The days of glory lasted years, but the fall, starting Country of origin: Austria Data Journalism from Small Newsrooms in the summer of 2013, was sharp. As power shifted in the Arab world’s most Place of work: Wiener Zeitung, populous country, constraints by the military-backed regime tightened on media Vienna This study on data journalism in small newsrooms is based on literature, case outlets under the guise of restoring order after tumultuous years, and Egypt saw an Position at work: Reporter studies, and interviews with heads of newsroom data teams in Germany, unprecedented crackdown on the internet. This study focuses on cyber-activists’ It could not have been a better Sponsor: Austria Press Agency, Austria, and the UK. The findings make it clear that data journalism is all about struggle in today’s Egypt, focusing on north Sinai, a region long neglected and Alfred Geiringer Fellowship teamwork, and size is no barrier to innovation. Indeed smaller newsrooms can be combination of friendship, currently caught in the crossfire between militants and military. There, netizens at an advantage when it comes to integrating data teams. Journalists in smaller memories, knowledge, colours, struggle to break the decades-long embargo, amidst hostility from all sides. This publications often communicate better with each other, are more willing to take passion and fun. paper studies how they try to do that as conventional media turn a blind eye to risks, and can change the culture of the newsroom more easily. their plight. . . . a mind-expanding and Limited resources and lack of expertise in data journalism can life-changing experience. be overcome by collaborations and networks like the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s Bureau Local, which connects local newsrooms all over the UK. Stuart Lau Beginning of the Demise? New Limits for Hong Kong Country of origin: Hong Kong Media in Reporting Human Rights Issues in China Place of work: BBC Position at work: News The research paper goes to the heart of Hong Kong’s gradual decline in major Juliana Fregoso Bonilla #Mexico2018/Fake News and Social Media: the New documentary producer global press freedom indexes 20 years after the city’s sovereignty was transferred Country of origin: Mexico Heads of the Hydra Sponsor: Lion Rock Spirit to communist China from the UK in 1997. In particular, it seeks to delve into the Place of work: Infobae Fellowship issues of self-censorship and media ownership with reference to two recent news Position at work: Correspondent The spread of misinformation on social media has taken democracies around the events: the death of jailed Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and China’s Sponsor: Google Digital News world by surprise, especially during major political events such as presidential staged confessions featuring kidnapped Hong Kong booksellers. With first-hand Initiative elections. At the international level, political actors like politicians, news media, interviews with journalists and human rights activists as well as content analyses, and supranational organisations are discussing how misinformation will impact the study aims to provide worldwide journalists and academics with an updated the presidential election in Mexico. This study looks at whether Mexico and news understanding of certain worrying trends for journalism in China’s freest city. media in the country are prepared to deal with misinformation. It provides novel evidence mainly based on interviews conducted with key actors in the Mexican news media ecosystem to understand in which ways misinformation could distort What a great place in which the Mexican election campaign and whether news media are prepared to deal with to enrich my knowledge on so it. Additionally, the paper discusses the absence of laws against the operation of bots and social media fake profiles for political purposes. It also assesses current many different issues facing regulatory approaches to misinformation by reviewing recent international different parts of the world. frameworks to tackle this online phenomenon. The Journalist Fellowship Programme Fellowship Journalist The Programme Fellowship Journalist The
21 Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 22 Fellows’ Voices Wonderful, I learnt exhausting, a lot about enriching my field and of research but spending inspiring. time with so many inspiring Maleeha colleagues helped me learn about myself and my career goals too. Caithlin
The exchange of ideas and the academic RISJ offers environment that rarest has given me a completely commodity in new perspective on how to the frenetic 24/7 approach my work. media world – It’s time: to think, learn, challenge Ben been truly orthodoxies and make friends inspirational . . . , with colleagues from healing around the world. even. Mark Daria It allowed me to speak openly about the lack of free speech in my country whilst The discovering new friends fellowship from around the world. strengthened my belief in the Juliana power, reach, and future of journalism to hold power to account. Ching The Journalist Fellowship Programme Fellowship Journalist The Programme Fellowship Journalist The
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Daria Litvinova Human Wrongs: How Propaganda Helped the Kremlin Ntibinyane Mbaki Investigative Journalism in Africa: an Exploratory Country of origin: Russia Weaponise Social Conservatism Ntibinyane Study of Not-For-Profit Investigative Journalism in the Place of work: Freelance Country of origin: Botswana Continent journalist Vladimir Putin’s third term as Russian President brought a new concept into the Place of work: INK Centre for Sponsor: Thomson Reuters spotlight – ‘defending traditional values’. In the aftermath of mass protests of Investigative Journalism Ten years ago, the first not-for-profit investigative journalism in Africa was Foundation 2011–12, revolution in Ukraine in 2014, and falling out with the West following Position at work: Managing established. Years later Africa is awash with not-for-profit investigative outlets, and the annexation of Crimea, Russian propaganda started painting the country as Partner/Investigative Reporter some of them are enjoying unparalleled success. The question now is what is the not just a fortress besieged by enemies, but also as the last bastion of morality Sponsor: Anglo American motivating factor behind the proliferation of these organisations? Who is funding and traditions, as opposed to the decadent, degrading West. This study looks at Foundation them and how? Are these organisations making an impact in the continent? This the tools Russian state-run and pro-Kremlin media used to promote the idea exploratory study goes to the heart of these questions and argues forcefully that of ‘traditional values’, whether this influenced the human rights situation in the in a continent where traditional media organisations are failing to hold power to World-class seminars coupled country, and how, if at all, this narrative can be countered. account, not-for-profit organisations are leading by example, setting the agenda with hours of first-class and creating meaningful impact. supervision – a great experience.
Caithlin Mercer Kanye West and the Digital Information Challenge Country of origin: Ireland/ South Africa In April 2018, US hip hop artist Kanye West returned to the social media spotlight. Place of work: Yahoo, UK In the weeks that followed, what unfolded on his Twitter timeline was a microcosm Emma-Leena Embracing the Boundaries: Visual Storytelling on Position at work: Managing of the opportunities and challenges we face following the digital information Editor revolution. Platforms, advertisers, academics, and NGOs are all working on ways to Ovaskainen Mobile News Country of Origin: Finland Sponsor: Google Digital curb intentional disinformation and guard against the effects of misinformation. Place of work: Helsingin Sanomat The rise of mobile phones as the predominant device for news consumption sets News Initiative Using Mr West’s self-reported list of online information sources, this paper explores Position at work: Design Editor both possibilities and challenges for news media. This report concentrates on the risks and potential of these projects and explore the dangers inherent in trying Sponsor: Helsingin Sanomat how eight different news media have risen to the challenge and what are the best to control emerging communication patterns. Foundation practises for producing mobile visual storytelling. It also looks into how the visual team is integrated in the workflow of the newsroom and what roles they take when producing content. Interviews were conducted with the BBC, Guardian, The Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Quartz and The Pudding. The main questions of the research are (1) What kind of visual storytelling works in mobile environment Sevhil How to Rebuild Trust in the Media: An Example of and why? (2) What kind of roles, skills, and tools do visual journalist have? (3) Does Musaieva-Borovyk ‘Ukrayinska Pravda’ this conclude with people’s engagement and trust in news? Country of origin: Ukraine Place of work: Ukrayinska Pravda The people of Ukraine do not trust its media. Its journalists have struggled to retain Position at work: Editor-in-Chief their reputations in the face of Russian propaganda, pressure from oligarchs, and Sponsor: Committee to Protect from the government which accuses them of being unpatriotic. Ukrayinska Pravda Journalists/Reuters Institute is known for its rigorous journalism and investigations. This study seeks to set up Reshma Patil Breaking News, Missing Views an editorial code of practice that will help strengthen the relationship between Country of origin: India the newspaper and its readers, by setting up a readers’ editor, and by offering Position at work: Freelance The under-representation of women in the news as expert commentators and transparency over finances and editorial decisions. journalist news subjects is a global trend that has not yet been studied in-depth in India. For Sponsor: Thomson Reuters this research two prime-time news debates on two national English news channels Foundation were analysed for one month each, and found indications of a consistent under- representation, and occasionally a complete absence, of women commentators. The report explores UK-based research and tools that have partially bridged the gender gap and recommends how they could be replicated in India.
A fantastic setting to experience Oxford and explore emerging trends in journalism. The Journalist Fellowship Programme Fellowship Journalist The Programme Fellowship Journalist The
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Ingerid Salvesen What is the Role of Journalism in Confronting Climate Ben Tobias Renewing the Television News Format: How Can TV Country of origin: Norway Change? Country of origin: United News Broadcasters Attract Younger Audiences? Position at work: Freelance Kingdom journalist ‘Is there a way to make people care?’ Alan Rusbridger asked at the end of his Place of work: BBC World Research in several high-income countries shows that television news audiences Sponsor: Fritt Ord Foundation editorship of the Guardian in 2015, and he was talking about climate change. News TV are getting older. Of course a big part of this is the huge choice of news sources ‘Journalism has so far failed to animate the public to exert sufficient pressure Position at work: Senior now available. But television itself is still popular with young people, for example, on politics through reporting and analysis’ on this issue, he wrote, and launched Broadcast Journalist Netflix. Television news is the problem. What then can be done to make it more the campaign ‘Keep It In The Ground’, a journalistic series on climate change, Sponsor: BBC relevant and accessible to younger audiences? And what is its niche in a world but also a cooperation with an NGO to convince two foundations to divest from where people consume news from a variety of sources? This paper focuses on three fossil fuels. Thus the Guardian dived into contested waters of journalistic norms news programmes already trying to find answers to these questions, asking what on impartiality, objectivity, trust, and public service, raising important questions the key challenges are to rethinking the standard television news format. on the role of journalism in tackling an issue with the profound social and moral consequences that climate change does arguably have. This paper grapples with those questions by studying the results of the campaign, through qualitative The exchange of ideas and interviews with core actors and a comparative content analysis of climate change academic environment has coverage in the Guardian and the New York Times in the campaign period. given me a completely new perspective on how to approach my work.
Maleeha Hamid Showing the Way: How Big Pakistani Media Groups are Siddiqui Leading the Surge in Data Journalism Country of origin: Pakistan Place of work: Dawn Media This paper reports that large media organisations are spearheading data Group, Karachi journalism in Pakistan in the face of severe restrictions imposed by the military, Doreen Wahu Technology Disruption in Kenya: Challenges Facing Position at work: Senior government, religious militants, and separatist groups. English-language media sub-editor and reporter houses have made full use of the data journalism tools at their disposal to tell big Wainainah Local Newsrooms Country of origin: Kenya Sponsor: Thomson Reuters stories, but smaller groups are yet to catch up. Place of work: Nation Media When mobile money arrived in Kenya, the industry was sceptical about the Foundation Group, Kenya functionality and the adoption of the new technology. Ten years later, mobile Position at work: Business money has captured the market and has become a core of the banking system Reporter/Writer in Kenya, including those who did not have access to the mainstream banking Sponsor: Wincott Foundation channels. The digital era is taking no hostages in industries in Kenya with the media industry currently in the middle of the adoption stages of online media and Jayant Sriram The Role of the Print Product in the Digital Age journalism. The media have been making changes in the structure, investment, Country of origin: India and overall way of doing business to the delivery of news. This study asks one key Place of work: The Hindu India has the largest newspaper market in the world and is the only major market question, are Kenyan media putting in place the necessary structure for digital Position at work: Senior in the world where circulation numbers for some print titles are still growing. transformation? Assistant Editor Around 110 million new newspaper readers were added between the years 2014 Sponsor: Self-funded to 2017, but these numbers mask a major structural change that is at hand. As India also reaches record numbers for smartphone use and internet penetration, advertisers, who have for years paid the bulk of revenues for newspapers, are increasingly shifting their spends towards digital. This study looks at how print can be reinvented for profit and the role it can play in the media set of a news company that has to be increasingly geared towards a growing digital audience. It locates this This was a truly career- discussion within a larger debate about the business of journalism post advertising. defining experience. The Journalist Fellowship Programme Fellowship Journalist The Programme Fellowship Journalist The
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Journalism faces enormous Our Reuters Institute research deals with many challenges today, often under of the most pressing issues facing journalism conditions of great uncertainty around the world. From the scale and scope of so-called ‘fake news’ and the role of social media in and subject to rapid change and elections, to trust in journalism, changes in business increasing political pressures. and technology, and how news organisations are In this environment, it is critically adapting, we have published work that speaks directly to important that journalists and news the challenges journalists and news media face. Our talented media leaders, as well as policy-makers and the and hard-working research team has covered countries across Asia, the I have had the privilege of discussing our work with newsrooms from in their coverage, in their organisations, and at events. One clear sign public, have access Americas, and Europe in important publications, covering every aspect Chennai to New York, from London to Hong Kong, and with journalists we are delivering on our mission was when for example Jack Riley, of journalism from the to independent, and editors from all over the world at events in many different International Strategy Director, HuffPost, tweeted in February that it is news content it produces, countries, and know from these conversations that people make use of ‘hard to overestimate’ how much the Reuters Institute’s work informs relevant, and to audience reactions to the our research in day-to-day decision-making and strategy development how the profession and the industry thinks about itself. evidence-based businesses, organisations, alike. It is clear that we serve as a trusted source of insight and work to inform their and technologies that information in sometimes very contentious debates, not only in decision-making underpin and enable the news media, but also well beyond it, where we have been active and their thinking. it. We have published participants in both industry and policy discussions on how to deal important new work on with problems of disinformation, offering input to public authorities It is ‘hard to overestimate’ the rise of collaboration in including the UK Parliament and the European Commission. international investigative how much the Reuters journalism (a book edited I am proud of how the growing portfolio of Reuters Institute research, Institute’s work informs by former BBC Head of including but far from limited to our flagship Digital News Report how the profession and the News, Richard Sambrook), (more on this on page 35 by lead author Nic Newman) delivers timely, industry thinks about itself. and the role of culture and accessible, factual input via our articles, books, reports, and new culture change in news fast-turnaround factsheets, and especially proud to see that our work media’s organisational is being picked up and used by journalists and editors around the world transformations (by our Research Associate Professor Lucy Küng).
It is critically important to have access to independent, relevant, and evidence-based work to inform their decision-
making and their thinking. Above: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen presenting at Oxford Perspectives
Left: A book on freedom of expression hangs on a burnt tree alongside the spot where a car bomb Above: U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader was detonated killing investigative journalist Kim Jong Un leave after signing documents that acknowledge Daphne Caruana Galizia four days ago, on the the progress of the talks and pledge to keep momentum going, road leading from her home in Bidnija, Malta,
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31 Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 32 The European Journalism Observatory Caroline Lees
The Reuters Institute is a The EJO publishes articles in 14 languages, partner of the European through websites based in Albania, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Journalism Observatory (EJO). Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, UK, and Ukraine. The EJO network is a collaboration The Arabic Journalism Observatory is published in between 16 research institutes in 15 Arabic and French. countries. These include the Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano; the Erich-Brost Articles about media and journalism issues, written, shared, and Institut, University of Dortmund; the National translated by EJO network partners, have reached increasingly larger audiences via the English EJO site in the last year. University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev;
Charles University, Prague; the University of Journalists, academics, practitioners, and media analysts from across Wroclaw, Poland; the Media Development Europe, the US, and Africa have contributed articles to the EJO on Centre, Tunis; and the School of Journalism issues including data analytics in the newsroom, paywalls, algorithms, and Communication, University of Oregon, misinformation and propaganda, new technology, press freedom, and Eugene. The network is expanding and in the independent journalism. A particular focus has been on Eastern and Central European countries where the last two topics are of particular past 12 months two new language sites have launched, one in Spanish, based at Complutense University of Madrid, the other in French, based at the University of Neuchâtel.
relevance given recent political developments. RISJ journalist fellows Articles are also regularly picked up by popular international and staff have also contributed articles about their original research to media research and news websites, including Reuters, Nieman Lab, the site, some produced exclusively for the EJO. journalism.co.uk, the Ethical Journalism Network, and the Global Consortium for Investigative Journalism. Right: Head of Ukrainian The network has also initiated and published collaborative journalistic State Security Service (SBU) research projects. In early 2018 the EJO conducted a qualitative The English EJO, which is funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation, Vasily Gritsak attends a content analysis of print and online news sources in 11 European Stiftung Presse-Haus NRZ, and, since 2017, the Open Society news briefing about the killing of Russian journalist countries, analysing the number of contributions made by female Foundations, will continue to publish the latest research into the Arkady Babchenko, who was journalists. It also examined the representation of women in news rapidly changing media industry, issues around press freedom, and declared murdered and then pages. The study 'Where are the Women Journalists In Europe’s Media?' professional concerns, both in Europe and beyond. It plans to build later turned up alive, in Kiev, revealed that news coverage in Europe is overwhelmingly dominated further on its current success in reaching practising journalists and Ukraine May 30, 2018. by male journalists. The findings, published at a time when gender attracting well-known contributors from the profession, as well as REUTERS/Valentyn balance in the media has increasingly moved into focus, received from academia. Ogirenko widespread coverage in Europe, including in Poland, Ukraine, Spain, and Brazil. Nieman Lab and Poynter reported the findings in the US.
The EJO has also successfully collaborated with a number of its partner institutions to produce the report Europe’s Public Service Media: Between Responsibility and Accountability, which received widespread coverage in industry circles.
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Nic Newman Concern about Misinformation Spreads across the World like Brazil (85%), Spain (69%), and the United States (64%) where polarised political situations combine with high social media use. It Over half of those polled (54%) say they are concerned about whether is lowest in Germany (37%) and the Netherlands (30%) where recent news is real or ‘fake’ on the internet. This is highest in countries elections were largely untroubled by concerns over ‘fake’ content.
PROPORTION THAT SAY THEY TRUST NEWS FROM EACH SOURCE Figure 2. ProportionALL MARKETS that say they trust news from each source - all markets
Trust news Trust news Trust news Trust news overall I use in search in social
The seventh edition of our The report found that the use of social media annual Digital News Report for news has started to fall in a number of key markets after years of continuous growth. comes amid continuing concern Much of the fall can be attributed to changing 44% 51% 34% 23%
about so-called ‘fake news’ and Facebook algorithms as part of its response to about the role of tech companies misinformation, but we found too that users are (platforms) in facilitating the spread also worried about privacy, the toxic nature of debates of misinformation. The report aims on the platform, and the difficulty in distinguishing true from fake information on the platform. Q6_2018_1/2/3/4. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements. I think you can trust ‘most news’/’news I consume’/’news in social media’/’news in search engines’ most of the time. to track changing news consumption across Q6_2018_1/2/3/4.Base: Total samplePlease in all markets indicate = 74194. your level of agreement with the following statements. I think you can trust ‘most news’/’news I countries and over time and is based on the consume’/’news in social media’/’news in search engines’ most of the time. Base: Total sample in all markets = 74194. At the same time we found a rise in the usage for news of alternative largest ongoing news survey in the world, with platforms such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Snapchat, particularly 74,000 respondents in 37 markets. This was with younger groups. supplemented by qualitative focus groups in fragmented markets in Europe have seen little subscription growth The report found that just 23% trust news on social media, Business Models Continue to Evolve four countries (UK, US, Germany, and Brazil) to despite increased attempts to charge for some online content. compared with 34% for search, 44% for trust in news overall, and understand consumer attitudes to the role of This year’s report contained mixed news for publishers looking to build 51% for sources that people use themselves. social media and messaging apps. sustainable online revenue. Nordic countries saw significant increases Last year’s significant increase in digital subscriptions in the United in the numbers paying for online, with Norway reaching 30% (+4), States (the so-called Trump Bump) has been maintained, while Sweden 26% (+6), and Finland 18% (+4). By contrast more complex and donations and donation-based memberships are emerging as a
PROPORTION THAT USED EACH SOCIAL NETWORK FOR NEWS IN THE LAST WEEK (2014-18) SELECTEDFigure 1. Proportion MARKETS that used each social network for news in the last week (2014-18) – selected markets Figure 3. Proportion paying for online news: selected countries
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Now16% pay for online 7% NORDIC COUNTRIES news in the US In the UK 0% LEAD THE WORLD 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2014-18, Q12b Which, if any, of the following have you used in the last week for news? Base: Total sample in 12 countries (UK, US, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Australia, Brazil, Japan) ; 10 country average for 2014 excl Australia and Ireland TRUMP BUMP Q12B. Which, if any, of the following have you used for finding, reading, watching, sharing or discussing news in the last week? Base: Total sample in MAINTAINED selected markets: Note: From 2015-18, the 12 markets included are UK, US, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Japan, Australia, Brazil. Q7a. Have you paid for ONLINE news content, or accessed a paid for ONLINE news service in the last year ? (This could be a digital subscription, combined digital/print subscription or one o payment for an In 2014, we did not poll in Australia or Ireland. article or app or e-edition) Q7a. Have you paid for ONLINE news content, or accessed a paid for ONLINE news service in the last year? (This could be a digital subscription, combined digital/print subscription or one off payment for an article, app or e-edition.) Research and Publications Research and Publications Research
35 Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 36 significant alternative strategy in Spain and the UK, as well as in the in social media in future along with brands that contain extreme or Research Projects United States. partisan content.
Brand Trust Scores In the United States we find that local television news is most trusted, with a mean score of over six out of ten (6.5), and Breitbart least With Facebook looking to incorporate survey-driven brand trust trusted (3.69). However for those who use Breitbart regularly, the The Reuters Institute research is currently scores into its algorithms, the report reveals, for the first time, trust score jumps to 6.96, reflecting its highly partisan user base. Trust structured around four core questions that face results for top news brands in each of the 37 countries based is also strongly affected by political affiliation. In the UK, the public journalism and news all over the world, and on similar methodologies. The survey shows that brands with a broadcaster BBC scores best, with popular newspapers and digital where it is critically important that journalists broadcasting background tend to be trusted most – suggesting that born brands scoring lowest. and media leaders have access to independent, popular newspapers and digital-born brands could get less visibility timely, evidence-based work.
Figure 4. Brand trust scores
1. How do Audiences Engage with News and Media?
Journalism exists in the context of its audience. The public role, political importance, and business model of journalism are all premised on its ability to draw people in. In our audience research we use surveys, focus groups, interviews, and digital trace data to analyse how audiences across the world engage with news and media, what they think about journalism, and how this is changing.
Above: Cameras are placed over a placard reading “You don’t kill the truth killing journalists” during a protest following the murder of photojournalist Daniel Esqueda outside the Municipal Q6_2018. How trustworthy would you say news from the following brands is? Use the scale below, where 0 is ‘not at all trustworthy’ and 10 is Palace in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, ‘completely trustworthy’. Base: Total sample/all who used each brand in the last week. Note: People who indicated that they have not heard of a brand were October 6, 2017. REUTERS/ excluded. Bases vary for users of each brand, but all were above 50. Daniel Ibarra
Right: The Journal de Morges Impact of the Research newspaper is being printed in the KBA rotary press at the Lausanne Printing Center (Centre The report generated hundreds of articles in more than 30 countries d’Impression Lausanne), owned including coverage in the New York Times, the BBC, the Guardian, The by Tamedia, in Bussigny, Times, ABC Australia, Sydney Morning Herald, France 24, Fox News, Switzerland, May 3, 2018. Business Insider, Dawn, Globe and Mail, Irish Times, RTE, Mashable, REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Brands with a broadcasting HuffPost, Der Spiegel, Zeit Online, Daily Mail, New York Post, UK Press background tend to be Gazette, Nieman Lab, and Journalism.co.uk. A series of locally focused reports has been produced by academic partners, with others planned 2. How are News Organisations Adapting to trusted most later in the year. a Changing Environment?
The report is supported by Google, the BBC, Ofcom, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, the Dutch Media Authority, the Media Industry The low-choice media environment that most broadcasters and Research Foundation of Finland, the Fritt Ord Foundation in Norway, printed newspapers dominated in the 20th century no longer exists as the Korea Press Foundation, Edelman UK, as well as our academic we move to a high-choice media environment dominated by platforms. sponsors at the Hans Bredow Institute, the University of Navarra, the In our work on organisational transformation, we draw on field visits, University of Canberra, the Centre d’études sur les médias, Université qualitative methods, and confidential background information
Research and Publications Research Laval, Canada, and Roskilde University in Denmark. Polling was to analyse how news organisations are adapting to a changing and Publications Research conducted by YouGov in January and February 2018. environment.
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In the course of 2017–18, we have secured funding for two new, important research projects, one on ‘Misinformation, Science, and Media’, and one on ‘Journalism Innovation’.
3. How are Relations between Misinformation, Science, and Media Platforms and Publishers Evolving? Above: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks In the ‘Misinformation, Science, and Media’ project, we will about protecting election integrity, fighting be working with colleagues at the Oxford Internet Institute to “fake news” and data privacy at Facebook examine the interplay between misinformation campaigns, news Publishers are increasingly intertwined with large, US-based Inc’s annual F8 developers conference in San coverage, and platform companies in public understanding of Institute and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen from the Reuters Institute. Initially, platform companies like Facebook and Google, companies that by Jose, California, U.S. May 1, 2018. REUTERS/ science and technological innovation. Most policy and public the project will run for three years funded by the Oxford Martin School developing popular products and services and attracting billions of Stephen Lam discussions of problems of disinformation have focused primarily and anchored at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Reuters Institute users have come to dominate the battle for attention and advertising on campaigns and elections, but it is increasingly clear that for the Study of Journalism. The aim is to increase our understanding of and seriously challenge the traditional business of news. Through Below: Detained Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo leaves in a police vehicle after a court disinformation operations are also involved in other important how misinformation campaigns, ‘junk science’, and false news influence interviews, archival research, and collection of digital data we analyse hearing in Yangon, Myanmar May 28, 2018. issues including scientific controversies around everything from – or even undermine – public understanding of scientific issues and how publishers are simultaneously empowered by and increasingly REUTERS/Ann Wang climate change to vaccines. The project will involve a team develop evidence-based recommendations for scientists, journalists, dependent upon platform companies, and examine the dynamics of of researchers, external collaborators, and the two principal and policy-makers interested in effective science communication and their asymmetric relations. investigators, Professor Philip N. Howard from the Oxford Internet public understanding in the 21st century.
Above: A demonstrator holds up a banner that reads “I don’t want to eat transgenics” during a protest march against Monsanto Co, the world’s largest seed company, in 4. How Widespread are Santiago city, May 23, 2015. REUTERS/Rayen Luna Problems of Disinformation? Journalism Innovation
Different kinds of disinformation are a serious threat to public debate and the Even 25 years into the development of digital journalism, news discussion around so-called ‘fake news’ risks is still deeply shaped by formats, genres, and organisational undermining people’s trust in journalism. In our forms developed for a very, very different 20th-century disinformation research we use a wide range of media environment. In the ‘Journalism Innovation’ methods to understand audiences’ perspective project, we aim to identify and analyse examples on different kinds of disinformation and of innovative best practices in digital, mobile, and measure the scale and scope of these problems social media journalism to generate new insights to in different countries. help independent, professional news organisations develop more effective forms of storytelling aligned with an evolving media environment, examining what journalism can look like ‘beyond the article’ and when practised in ways not dictated by the inherited customs and routines of broadcast or print legacies. The purpose is to understand and foster innovation in journalism through independent research by identifying, analysing, and sharing best practice case studies from around the world. Initially a one-year pilot project, it will focus on new digital, mobile, and Left: Lucy Küng social forms of journalism, with an emphasis on editorial innovation presenting at the in formats/genres across private sector and non-profit news media. launch of her report The Journalism Innovation project builds on the Reuters Institute’s Going Digital: A Roadmap ongoing international research on evolving practices of journalism. for Organisational Transformation
Research and Publications Research The project is funded by a grant from Facebook. ©JuliaMasseyStewart and Publications Research
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Many RISJ publications are BOOKS Indian News Media Reuters Institute Reuters Institute Digital News Report available for free download and the Production Digital News Report Digital News 2018 from our website. Hard copies of News in the Age of 2017: Asia-Pacific Report 2017: Turkey Edited by Nic Newman with can be purchased via our Social Discovery Supplementary Report Supplementary Report Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy, partner publisher, Columbia Zeenab Aneez, Sumandro Francis Lee, Michael Chan, Servet Yanatma and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen University Press, Amazon Chattapadhyay, Vibodh Hsuan-Ting Chen, Dennis K. K. Sponsors: Reuters Institute for the Parthasarathi, and Rasmus Leung, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, or other booksellers, or the Study of Journalism with Google Sponsors: BBC News, Broadcasting Kleis Nielsen and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen University of Oxford and the Digital News Initiative Authority of Ireland, the Dutch Media Authority, Centre d’études Online Store. Sponsor: Reuters Institute for the Sponsors: Reuters Institute for The Turkey supplementary sur les médias, Université Laval, Study of Journalism the Study of Journalism and the report of the Digital News Report Edelman UK, Fritt Ord Foundation, Chinese University of Hong Kong This report examines the social 2017 provides a more detailed Google, Hans-Bredow-Institut, media practices of six English- This report presents an analysis examination of Turkish data on Korea Press Foundation, Media language news organisations of data from a survey of online how people get news and use Industry Research Foundation of based in India in the context of news users in seven markets media. It shows that the figures Finland, Ofcom, Roskilde University, Global Teamwork: The Rise of NGOs as Newsmakers: The the country’s increasing mobile in the Asia-Pacific region: for overall trust and distrust University of Canberra, University Collaboration in Investigative Changing Landscape of internet access and a growing Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, in Turkish news media are of Navarra Journalism International News number of social media users. Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and remarkably similar – an indicator The seventh Digital News Report Edited by Richard Sambrook Matthew Powers From interviews with senior Australia. Based on data from of very polarised society and reveals that social media use editors and executives, as well the 2017 Reuters Institute Digital news media. Despite the strong Sponsor: Reuters Institute for the Study Publisher: Published in the Reuters Institute for news has started to fall in a as analysis of the Facebook News Report survey, the regional use of online media for news, of Journalism Global Journalism series with Columbia number of key markets after years and Twitter output of each focus provides more detailed social media have the highest University Press of continuous growth. The report, Recent major leaks of documents and data organisation, there were analysis of developments across level of distrust in news overall. which is based on a YouGov have seen new approaches to investigative As traditional news outlets’ international the following findings. First, Asia-Pacific markets. The report The use of Facebook and Twitter survey conducted with 74,000 journalism develop. Collaboration across coverage has waned, several prominent Facebook is more important to shows that most markets in the for news has fallen sharply people in 37 markets, notes that countries and across organisations has non-governmental organisations have taken publishers than Twitter. Second, region are deeply shaped by whereas closed messaging the fall in social media use for been necessary to share the scale of on a growing number of seemingly journalistic most organisations covered the spread of smartphones and services like WhatsApp as a way news is partly attributable to the investigation, share expertise, and functions, from gathering information to pursue an on-site strategy the rise of platforms, but also of sharing news have remarkably Facebook’s changed algorithms, coordinate publication to maximise impact. providing analysis. Digital technologies and oriented towards driving social characterised by some publishers risen. All these may be linked to but that users are also worried This new model of collaboration, in an social media have increased the potential for media referrals to their website who maintain a strong direct fears of government surveillance. about privacy, the toxic nature industry otherwise focused on exclusivity, NGOs to communicate directly with the public, (where content can be monetised connection with their users. Interestingly, the most used of debates on the platform, and indicates ways of adapting to technological, bypassing traditional gatekeepers. In this through advertising). Third, while online news sites continue to how to distinguish between real business, and political change to strengthen book, Powers argues that, while these efforts the majority of social posts are be those provided by traditional and ‘fake news’. The report finds accountability journalism at a time when it have changed and expanded traditional news links to content on publishers’ media brands using content that just 23% trust news on social is under pressure from multiple directions. practices and coverage, these organisations websites, all publishers have repackaged from print, television, media, compared with 34% for This book is a collection of essays from some are still dependent on traditional political and been increasing the amount or news agencies. search, 44% for trust in news of those closely involved in developing new media elites. It offers an analysis of the risks of of native content they post, overall, and 51% for sources that models of collaboration in investigative blurring the lines between reporting especially to Facebook. The people use themselves. The report journalism. It offers lessons from some of the and advocacy. report also contains insight into also reveals that the number of recent major investigations, like the Panama how Indian news organisations people paying for online news and Paradise Papers and Edward Snowden’s plan their social media content, is up in a number of countries, NSA files, and a framework for others seeking what tools and data they used to email and mobile notifications are to mount major collaborative investigations measure their performances and helping to create greater loyalty, in future. the relationship they share with while new business models such the technology giants – Facebook as membership and donations Research and Publications Research and Twitter – that build and and Publications Research are beginning to gain traction. control these platforms.
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Bias, Bullshit, and The Global Expansion Journalism, Media, Public Service News Lies: Audience of Digital-Born News and Technology Trends and Social Media Perspectives on Low Media and Predictions 2018 Annika Sehl, Alessio Cornia, and Interested But Tom Nicholls, Nabeelah Shabbir, Nic Newman Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Attitudes to Paying for Developing Digital Going Digital: Trust in the Media Not Engaged: How Nic Newman and Richard and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Online News News Projects in A Roadmap for This report looked ahead at the What strategies do public service Europe’s Media Fletcher media have for news distribution Kantar Media Private Sector Media Organisational Digital publishing can provide trends in media and technology Cover Brexit Bias, spin, and hidden agendas opportunities for internationally that would shape the news on social media? How do they Alexandra Borchardt, Felix M. Based on a series of focus Alessio Cornia, Annika Sehl, and Transformation come across as the main reasons oriented media to build large industry in 2018, a critical year organise their work? How do Simon, and Diego Bironzo groups held in four countries Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Lucy Küng for lack of trust in the news audiences across multiple for the relationship between they react to changes in the (UK, US, Finland, and Spain), ranking algorithms and products? Sponsors: Reuters Institute for This report examines how How are media firms media along with a perceived countries using both on-site publishers and platforms, as this report explores attitudes This report looks at how public the Study of Journalism and PRIME 12 major newspapers and approaching the challenges of decline in journalistic standards and off-site distribution. We companies like Google and to paying for online news and service news organisations in Research commercial broadcasters in increasing agility, merging the driven by greater competition examine seven digital-born Facebook fight a rising tide of digital advertising and shows six European countries are cultures of journalism and tech, and some online business news media based in the US (or criticism about their impact six European countries (Finland, How do European media cover that while consumers are developing new products, and handling the ceaseless models. These concerns are opening newsrooms there) with on society – and on journalism. France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Brexit? This report sheds some increasingly prepared to pay for and focuses on the different stream of ‘shiny new things’, strongest with the young and a presence in France, Germany, News business models are and the UK) deliver news via light on the intensity and focus online services, news is seen as motivations driving investment ranging from AR to Alexa? When with those on low incomes. Trust the Netherlands, and the UK. shifting from advertising towards social media at a time when media outlets in eight countries less valuable than entertainment in digital news projects. Based should they learn from Silicon in the news that people find in These include long-established subscription and other forms news use is increasingly driven by outside of the United Kingdom apps like Netflix and Spotify. on interviews conducted with Valley, and when should they turn social media is lower still, but digital players, newer entrants, of reader payment. It argued referrals or consumed off-site on are dedicating to the process of Disappointing returns from 41 senior editors and managers away? Through deep research similar trends are at play – bias, and recently launched European that 2018 would also see a various platforms. The analysis is the UK’s leaving the European digital display advertising means in Finland, France, Germany, at companies including the agendas, and low-quality enterprises. Business models are renewed focus on data – as the based on 14 interviews conducted Union. The comparative content more publishers are trying to sell Italy, Poland, and the UK, the Washington Post, Axel Springer, information. The report argues mostly based on digital display ability to collect, process, and between November 2017 and analysis examined the complete individual digital subscriptions report explores a wide range Schibsted, Vox, the Financial that this is largely a function of advertising, an increasingly use it effectively proves a key January 2018, primarily with coverage of 39 media outlets and membership schemes of projects – from investment Times, the New York Times, The a model that allows anybody challenging market. Pay or differentiator. Media companies senior editors and managers for in Ireland, Germany, France, or persuade consumers to in content designed to drive Economist, Le Monde, El País, to publish without checks, and member models are rare. Most would be actively moving news, or social media for news Spain, Sweden, Italy, Greece, donate money. But this report subscriptions, to mobile apps Dagens Nyheter, and the Guardian, algorithms that sometimes remain in investment and customers from the ‘anonymous specifically. The interviews are and Poland over a period of suggests that consumers may and social media initiatives, to this report identifies best practice favour extreme or contentious growth mode and have not been to the known’ so they can complemented by analyses of seven months. It found that, be more interested in paying experimentation with virtual in organisational transformation. content. By coding and analysing consistently profitable, despite develop more loyal relationships how various public service media while the reporting was fairly for experiences that aggregate reality and voice-activated Combining themes such responses, the report categorises being much leaner organisations and prepare for an era of more perform on social media. The stable in volume, it was rather multiple news brands and speakers. The report illustrates as agility, strategy, culture the specific issues that are driving than most legacy media. While personalised services. The era of social media platforms focused dispassionate in tone. In most perspectives than for any single how news organisations often management, the integration of public concern across countries expansion has increased Artificial Intelligence would bring on are Facebook, Twitter, and countries the media regarded brand. Quality of content, brand seek a combination of both tech, and leadership, it presents a as well as those that build trust audiences, tensions exist between new opportunities for creativity Instagram. Brexit as a domestic challenge for benefits, and convenience will direct and indirect benefits when roadmap for change in the face of such as journalistic processes, globalising and localising and for efficiency – but also for the UK, not as a problem for the also need to improve markedly investing in new digital projects. digital disruption. strong brands, and quality pressures, deciding whether to greater misinformation and EU. The exception was Ireland, if news organisations are to journalism delivered over time. partner or go alone, maintaining manipulation. which is directly affected in many succeed in charging for news brand and tone consistency respects. Most coverage revolved online. across multiple editions and either around the progress of the languages catering to very negotiations or centred on issues different markets, and the connected to the economy. challenges of coordinating global newsrooms, for which several organisations are now developing technological responses.
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Mónica Herrero Stephen D. Reese
is an Associate Professor at the School of Communication (University of Navarra, Spain), where she was Dean from is Jesse H. Jones Professor, School of Journalism, Moody College of Communication, University of Texas. While at the 2008 to 2017. During her time in Oxford her work has mainly focused on three areas. First, as a co-director of a research Reuters Institute he explored a number of new directions in the sociology of news. An essay (and current book proposal) project financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness on ‘Reasons for the Consumption of Fiction on how to think about the institution of journalism was submitted to the International Communication Association and Entertainment in the Spanish Television Market’, she has been working on different outputs from this project, two for the 2018 meeting in Prague. Earlier versions of the paper, ‘Does the Institutional Press Still Matter? Exploring the conference papers, two book chapters and two articles under review in academic journals. Secondly, as a consequence Hybrid Infrastructure in the New Media Eco-System’, were presented, while he was based at the Reuters Institute, at of attending seminars and previous interests, she is presenting a paper together with an Oxford visiting scholar at the University of Zurich and Cardiff University. He contributed a lecture, ‘Reporting on Globalised Issues: China and the the EMMA Conference on regulatory issues concerning European broadcasters. Finally, she is working with a Spanish Environmental Movement’, to the Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar series. colleague on a paper about television brands and digital news, based on the data of the Digital News Report 2018 and focused on the Spanish market. Kim Schrøder
Atte Jääskeläinen Google Digital News Senior Visiting Research Fellow, is Professor of Communication at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research focuses on audience uses and experiences of news media, with particular reference to the ways in which co-directs an international research project about sustainable future models and challenges of national news agencies citizens navigate in the landscapes of news in the high-choice digital and mobile media culture. At the Reuters Institute in Europe. He co-directs the main study and is the principal investigator of one of the sub-projects of the research, a case his research explores different methods for mapping citizens’ news consumption in everyday life, in the form of ‘news study of business model innovation in selected agencies in Europe. He works in this sub-project together with Dr Servet repertoires’. Based on fieldwork in the UK, he applies an innovative approach, which integrates qualitative and qualitative Yanatma, also a Visiting Fellow at Reuters Institute. The project’s academic director is Prof. Terhi Rantanen, LSE, and in methods, in order to analyse the ways in which people seek out and make sense of the different news platforms and the total 12 researchers from five European universities participate in it. The first findings of the project were presented in news stories which are available to them in today’s mediatised culture. His co-authored and co-edited books in English EANA conference in Bucharest in April. The main conclusions are to be presented in EANA conference in September. include The Routledge Handbook of Museums and Media (in press), Audience transformations: Shifting Audience Positions in Atte Jääskeläinen has worked for more than 22 years in leading editorial positions in Finnish media. During his stay in Late Modernity (2014), and Researching Audiences (2003). Oxford he was invited to become Professor of Practice at Lappeenranta University of Technology from autumn 2018.
Jane Suiter Scott R. Maier is Associate Professor and Director Institute for Future Media and Journalism at Dublin City University. Jane’s focus is is Professor and Director of Journalism at the University of Oregon. Building on his published research examining on the global phenomenon of declining trust in the press and in journalism. Utilising the Reuters Institute Digital News audience response to distant suffering, Maier’s recent area of study applies a wide lens to identify contextual and systemic Report data, Jane is working on two projects both using individual and country levels factors to predict trust. The first factors that influence news organisations to cover (or overlook) humanitarian disaster. As a Visiting Fellow, Maier built finds that country level factors such as economic, political and party systems are particularly useful and that those a 187-nation database to evaluate international news flow. His preliminary research was presented at the International who are politically polarised either left or right and/or live in countries with a high degree of inequality tend to distrust Journal of Press/Politics annual conference hosted by the Reuters Institute. His latest study, developed at the Reuters news more. The effects are somewhat mitigated in terms of trusting personal news choices but nonetheless even here Institute, evaluates foreign news coverage by the New York Times, the Guardian, National Public Radio, Fox Network News, there are high degrees of distrust among the politically polarised. The second focuses on news source preferences and and Al Jazeera English. A major paper from his Oxford research is under revision for an international refereed journal. hypothesises that preference for non-mainstream sources will be negatively associated with trust.
Grzegorz Piechota Servet Yanatma
Google Digital News Senior Visiting Research Fellow, studies business model innovations as ways to respond to is an independent researcher and journalist. His research interests are political economy of media, media ownership, technology-enabled disruption in the media and other industries. During his time in Oxford, he focused on the shift of freedom of press, digital news, international news agencies, media, and politics in the late Ottoman Empire and modern the news media companies from business-to-business to business-to-consumer models, and from product-oriented Turkey. In his time at RISJ, he produced the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017: Turkey Supplementary Report, a to service-oriented organisations. His broad research agenda documents and analyses the rise of digital media national report which provides a more detailed examination of the Turkish data collected as part of the Reuters Institute subscriptions and identifies best practice. It includes an analysis of proprietary data sets of 500 news outlets worldwide, Digital News Report 2017. He attended the International Journalism Festival in Perugia where he organised a session comparative analysis of value propositions of 300 outlets, ethnographic studies of 45 consumer journeys, and over on ‘Searching for Online Media Business Models in Turkey’. Servet currently contributes to ‘The Future of National 50 interviews with news executives. The objective is to inform and guide decision-makers in the media in digital News Agencies in Europe’ project that studies the alternative futures for national news institutions by collecting and transformation of business models, organisations, and services. combining data and analysis from and for industry, policy-makers, and journalists working with and within European
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Comparative Qualitative Oxford Perspectives: Research on Journalism and Envisioning the Newsroom in News Media 2020 - Executive Education 11–12 September 2017 Event Reuters Institute, Oxford 22–24 November 2017 Reuters Institute, Oxford This two-day summer school for advanced doctoral students and early career The Reuters Institute hosted its first in the researchers explored the unique promise series of executive education events, led by of qualitative methods for comparative Alexandra Borchardt (RISJ), providing the scholarship in journalism and media/ latest insights into journalism and digital communications and helped the participants development. Experienced journalists and connect their individual projects to wider newsroom managers came together to learn discussions. The event was led by RISJ’s more about audiences, new formats, business Lucas Graves, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, and models that work, and current trends in Annika Sehl. journalism. Keynote speakers and presenters were Alan Rusbridger (chair, RISJ Steering Committee), Nic Newman (RISJ), Rasmus International Journal of Press/ Kleis Nielsen (RISJ), Bastian Obermayer Politics Conference (investigative reporter, Sueddeutsche Zeitung 27–29 September 2017 and lead author of The Panama Papers), Lucy Küng (RISJ), Susanne Klingner (journalist, St Anne’s College, Oxford author, speaker, co-founder of Plan W, an award-winning magazine of Sueddeutsche The third annual conference of the Zeitung on women and business), and Laura International Journal of Press/Politics Oliver (freelance journalist and consultant, brought together 60 scholars working on the former Head of Social and Community intersection between news media and politics Journalism at the Guardian). around the world. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (RISJ) and Natalie Stroud (Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Assistant Director of Research at the Annette Strauss Reuters Memorial Lecture: Institute for Civic Life at the University of When a President Wages War Texas at Austin) gave keynote addresses. on a Press at Work 16 February 2018
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‘an unrelenting assault by the most powerful Netherlands (NRC Handelsblad), Sweden person on earth’ has forced US journalists to The Power of Platforms (Dagens Nyheter), Germany (upday), Greece PUBLICATION LAUNCHES confront fundamental questions. The lecture 28 March 2018 (24MEDIA Holdings), Spain (El País), Austria was followed by a discussion chaired by Alan Green Templeton College, (Der Standard), France (Le Monde), and the UK Rusbridger (Chair, RISJ Steering Committee), Oxford (Financial Times and Google UK). Attitudes to Paying for Online with panellists Stephen Ansolabehere, News Professor of Political Science at Harvard The group was joined on the Thursday evening Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (RISJ) delivered this 15 September 2017 University, Ritu Kapur, co-founder and CEO, by Madhav Chinnappa (Director of Strategic inaugural lecture at Green Templeton College. Lightspeed Research, London Quintillion Media, and Vivian Schiller, former Relations for News and Publishers, Google It focused on the distinct forms of ‘platform Global Chair of News, Twitter. UK) for a small roundtable discussion on power’ that companies like Facebook, Google, The Reuters Institute and Kantar Media ‘Relations between Publishers and Platforms’ Twitter, and others exercise and asked what PARTNERED EVENTS hosted the launch of the report Attitudes and Alan Rusbridger (Chair, RISJ Steering Reporters without Borders can the case of publishers tell us about how to Paying for Online News. There was a Committee) led the discussion over dinner. (RSF)/Journalism Trust Oxford Perspectives: platforms are reshaping the institutions that presentation by Jason Vir (Kantar Media) The group was joined throughout by Monique Initiative Event Envisioning the Newsroom enable our democracies? followed by a panel discussion chaired by Nic Villa (CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation). The Consequences of 5 February 2018 in 2020 Newman (RISJ) with Chris Duncan (Managing Issues covered included 'Dealing with Germany’s Federal Elections Reuters Institute, Oxford Director, Times Newspapers Ltd), Peter Executive Education event Platforms'; 'Managing Change: Leadership, 23 October 2017 Hickman (Managing Director, Subscriptions, 21–23 February 2018 Editor and CEO Forum Culture, Agility, and Innovation'; and the Blavatnik School of Government, This workshop brought together attendees the Telegraph), and Denise Law (Head of Reuters Institute, Oxford 19–20 April 2018 Digital News Report 2018. The sessions were Oxford from the Reuters Institute and Reporters Strategic Product Development, Reuters Institute, Oxford led by RISJ’s David Levy, Rasmus Kleis without Borders (RSF) along with academics The Economist). The Reuters Institute hosted its second in Nielsen, Lucy Küng, and Nic Newman. This The German election of September 2017 around Oxford, including Lady Margaret Hall, this series, led by Alexandra Borchardt (RISJ), The Reuters Institute brought together a very was the fifth such meeting of industry leaders saw a weakened Angela Merkel returned to St Antony’s College, St Peter’s College, and the providing the latest insights into journalism distinguished group of news industry leaders, convened by RISJ, aimed at sharing experience power for a fourth term. Merkel now had to Bonavero Institute, to brainstorm the issues and digital development. Keynote speakers Editors-in-Chief and CEOs from 14 countries and stimulating new thinking, as well as The Emotional Toll on bring new parties into her coalition, likely involved in the RSF’s proposed Journalism and presenters were Alan Rusbridger (Chair, over two days to learn from RISJ research contributing new insights from RISJ research Journalists Covering the including the Greens. The election also Trust Initiative. RISJ Steering Committee), Nic Newman and to share, off the record, their ideas and as well as ideas to further enrich and brought a far-right party into the national Refugee Crisis (RISJ), Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (RISJ), Atte experience about how their organisations increase the relevance of the work of the parliament for the first time since 1945. The 18 October 2017 Jääskeläinen (Visiting Fellow, RISJ), Renée are confronting the key challenges of digital Reuters Institute. RISJ partnered with the Blavatnik School The Power and the Story: What The Frontline Club, London Kaplan (Head of Audience Engagement, transformation. Participants were from of Government to convene an expert panel Financial Times), Lucy Küng (RISJ), Susanne India (Indian Express), Canada (The Globe is the Future for Journalism? to debate what impact this would have The Reuters Institute report The Emotional Toll Klingner (co-founder of Plan W), and Juliane and Mail), Hong Kong (South China Morning 26 February 2018 Social Media and Political on Germany, the EU, and the world. Bill on Journalists Covering the Refugee Crisis looked Leopold (freelance journalist, media Post), the US (Vox Media), Ireland (the Irish Chatham House, London Polarisation Seminar Emmott (author and former Editor of The at how the recent refugee crisis in Europe took consultant, and former Editor-in-Chief of Times), Denmark (JP/Politikens Hus), the 1 May 2018 Economist) was moderator, with panellists an unexpected toll on journalists covering it, Buzzfeed Germany). John Lloyd presented some of the findings Alexandra Borchardt (RISJ), Felix Krawatzek exposing individuals and institutions to events Reuters Institute, Oxford from his new book which looks at how, with (Department of Politics and International and experiences that many found difficult the decline of print journalism and the rise Relations, Oxford and a Research Fellow to prepare for and process. Hannah Storm At this seminar Dr Pablo Barberá (Assistant of online platforms to disseminate news, at Nuffield College), andAlexandra Zeitz (Director of the International News Safety Professor of Computational Social Science in journalism has gone through a huge amount (Department of Politics and International Institute) with co-author Anthony Feinstein the Methodology Department, LSE) talked of change over the last two decades. This was Relations, Oxford). (Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto about his research on how social media followed by a panel discussion chaired by and Director, Neuropsychiatry Programme at reduce political polarisation. He also shared David Levy (RISJ), with Reiko Saisho (London Sunnybrook Health Science Centre), Yannis new findings from ongoing studies which bureau chief NHK and former Journalist Behrakis (photo-journalist, Reuters), and Will leverage social media data to understand Fellow), Marco Varvello (London Bureau Vassilopoulos (freelance video journalist how platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Chief, RAI), and Arkady Osrtovsky (Russia and with Agence France-Presse) discussed what Instagram are transforming different aspects Eastern Europe Editor, The Economist). Left: The Editor of democratic politics, e.g. ideological individuals and institutions can do to better prepare themselves for and navigate this new Events 2017-2018 Events and CEO Forum polarisation or social protest. 2017-2018 Events ©Rob Judges terrain in mental health for the media.
53 Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 Reuters Institute - Annual Report 2017-18 54 Publication Launches This event was hosted by Edelman UK, one of Going Digital: A Roadmap for the sponsors of the 2018 Digital News Report. How Europe’s Media Cover Organisational Transformation Brexit 23 November 2017 2 July 2018 Google UK, London Digital News Report 2018 Europe House, London 14 June 2018 Author Lucy Küng (RISJ) gave a presentation ZEIT ONLINE, Berlin European media are covering the negotiations of the report’s findings followed by a panel over Brexit, yet they appear mostly discussion with speakers Tom Standage After an introduction fromAlexandra unconcerned about the UK leaving the EU. (Deputy Editor and Head of Digital Strategy, Borchardt (RISJ) and Sebastian Horn (Deputy While coverage of Brexit is shaped by national The Economist), Chris Moran (Editor Strategic Editor-in-Chief, ZEIT ONLINE), Nic Newman perspectives, the overriding impression is Projects, the Guardian), and Renée Kaplan (RISJ) presented the key findings from the that of an objective attitude towards one of (Head of Audience Engagement, Financial 2018 Digital News Report alongside Dr Sascha the most important developments in recent Times), which was moderated by David Levy Hölig (the Hans-Bredow-Institut for Media European history. Alexandra Borchardt (RISJ) (RISJ). They discussed how media firms are Research, University of Hamburg) who looked chaired the panel of Daniel Broessler (Head approaching the challenges of increasing at the German results in more detail. This was of the Brussels Bureau, Süddeutsche Zeitung), agility, the merging of the cultures of followed by a panel discussion with Barbara Kate Day (Editorial Director, POLITICO), and journalism and tech, and how to handle the Hans (Editor-in-Chief, Spiegel Online), Jochen Ben Hall (World News Editor, Financial Times) ceaseless stream of ‘shiny new things’, ranging Wegner (Editor-in-Chief, ZEIT ONLINE), to discuss the findings of this RISJ report. from AR to Alexa, asking when should they Elmar Theveßen (Deputy Editor-in-Chief, learn from Silicon Valley, and when should ZDF), and Benedicte Autret (Google Head of they turn away. News Partnerships UK, Ireland, and Benelux). Digital News Report 2018 9 July 2018 Thomson Reuters, Brussels From Panama to Paradise: Digital News Report 2018 The Power of Collaboration in 14 June 2018 Following an introduction by Nick Collier Investigative Journalism The TOW Center for Digital (Global Head of Government and Regulatory 23 January 2018 Journalism, Columbia Journalism Affairs, Thomson Reuters), report authors The Frontline Club, London School, New York Nic Newman (RISJ) and David Levy (RISJ) presented the findings of the 2018 Digital News Report followed by a discussion and This event marked the launch of a new Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (RISJ) presented the Q&A session. Reuters Institute book, edited by Richard key findings from the 2018 Digital News Report Sambrook, which offers lessons from some which was followed by a very lively panel of the recent major investigations and a discussion with Erica Anderson (Google), framework for others seeking to mount major Campbell Brown (Facebook), Lydia Polgreen Digital News Report 2018 collaborative investigations in future. The (HuffPost), andMark Thompson (New 10 July 2018 session was chaired by David Levy (RISJ), York Times), moderated by Emily Bell Campus Altice, Paris, in with Richard Sambrook (RISJ), Bastian (TOW Center). partnership with GESTE Oberymayer (investigative journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung), Anne Koch (Programme At this event organised jointly with the French Director, Global Investigative Journalism Digital News Report 2018 online publishers association (GESTE) after Network), and (Managing Rachel Oldroyd 15 June 2018 an introduction by Jerome Perani (VP for Director, Bureau of Investigative Journalism) Growth and Partnerships at Altice Media), on the panel. National Press Club, Washington, DC Nic Newman (RISJ) and David Levy (RISJ) presented the international results from the 2018 Digital News Report followed by a Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (RISJ) presented the Digital News Report 2018 presentation of the French results by Alice key findings from the 2018 Digital News Report Antheaume (Executive Dean of the Sciences 14 June 2018 which was followed by a panel discussion with Po Journalism School) and a discussion and Edelman, London Chris Turpin (Senior Vice President for News Q&A session. and Editorial Director, NPR), Edward Roussel Report authors Nic Newman (RISJ) and David (Chief Innovation Officer, Dow Jones),Emilio Levy (RISJ) presented the findings of the Garcia-Ruiz (Managing Editor: Digital, the 2018 Digital News Report followed by a panel Washington Post), and Melissa Bell (Publisher, discussion chaired by Ed Williams (CEO, VoxMedia.com). Top Left: Lydia Polgreen, Campbell Brown and Mark Thompson at the Top Right: Richard Sambrook at the launch of his book From Edelman UK and Ireland) featuring David New York launch of the Digital News Report ©Jeenah Moon Panama to Paradise ©GiorgiaTobiolo/TheMangoLab Dinsmore (COO, News UK and Vice-Chair NMA), Polly Curtis (Editor-in-Chief, HuffPost Above left: Panellist Rachel Oldroyd at the launch of From Panama to Above right: Daniel Broessler, Kate Day and Ben Hall at the launch UK), Fran Unsworth (Director of News and Paradise ©GiorgiaTobiolo/TheMangoLab of How Europe’s Media Cover Brexit ©JuliaMasseyStewart Current Affairs, BBC), andNick Wrenn (Head
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Hilary Term 2018 Trinity Term 2018 Hilary Term 2018 Trinity Term 2018 THE BUSINESS AND PRACTICE MEDIA AND POLITICS OF JOURNALISM SEMINARS SEMINARS Is it True? Why Questions about the News Reporting the World Journalistic Ethics in Practice: The Bright Populism as a Challenge and a Threat to Green Templeton College Nuffield College are Changing Roula Khalaf, Deputy Editor, Financial Times Side, Dark Side, and Taboos Media in Liberal Democracies Liz Corbin, Editor, BBC Reality Check Atte Jääskeläinen, Visiting Fellow, RISJ Dr Alexander Görlach, Senior Fellow, Michaelmas Term 2017 Political Actors and the Use of Bots, Michaelmas Term 2017 Carnegie Council for Ethics in Not-for-Profit Journalism: A New Model Algorithms, and Other Forms of Trust, Power, and the Crisis of Media International Affairs What’s Happening to our Media? Rachel Oldroyd, Managing Editor, Bureau of Automation Quizzing Leaders for a Global Audience Ed Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Edelman Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of Research, Investigative Journalism Vidya Narayanan, Director of Research, Stephen Sackur, BBC World News, HARDTalk UK and Ireland Online Disinformation: What do we Know, RISJ Computational Propaganda Project, Oxford What can we Do? Photojournalism in the Digital Age Internet Institute Google and Facebook: Friend or Foe? Britain’s Media and Politics Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of Changing Patterns of Digital News Adrian Hadland, Senior Lecturer, University Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor, New Statesman Tony Gallagher, Editor-in-Chief, the Sun Research, RISJ Consumption of Stirling The News of Tomorrow: Just a Minute Nic Newman, Research Associate, RISJ Journalist fellows, RISJ Reporting on Globalised Issues: A Study of Let’s Talk about Money: Public We can’t Handle the Truth: Race, Big Data, Restoring Trust in News China and the Environmental Movement Broadcasters and Business News and Public Policy Q&A Discussion Alessandra Galloni, Global News Editor, Reporting of the Refugee Crisis and the AfD Stephen Reese, Professor of Journalism, Jasmin Buttar, Editor, BBC Business and Trevor Phillips, writer and broadcaster Ben Goldacre, Director, EBM DataLab, Reuters in Germany University of Texas Economics Centre Nuffield Dept Primary Care Tanit Koch, former Editor-in-Chief, Bild Broadcasters and the International Story Journalism and the Underworld Lessons Learnt Launching Al Jazeera Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Nevine Mabro, Deputy Editor, Britain, Brexit, and the New Political Chaos Antonio Sampaio, Research Associate, Experts as Journalists and the Contest for English and How they can be Applied to Trump Win Channel 4 News Jack Blanchard, Editor, London Playbook at International Institute for Strategic Studies the Truth News Media Today Luke Harding, Foreign Correspondent, Politico Stephen Khan, Editor, The Conversation Al Anstey, former MD, Al Jazeera English the Guardian Whistleblowing and Intelligence There are Many Roads to Power: How to Ewen MacAskill, Defence and Intelligence The Evolution of Digital Journalism and Build a Career in Journalism In Pursuit of Repertoires of News The Challenges of Writing about Correspondent, the Guardian Tapping into Tech for Story-Telling Alexandra Borchardt, Director of Leadership Consumption: Analysing How People Use Corruption in Africa Lianna Brinded, Europe Editor, Quartz Programmes, RISJ News Media in Everyday Life Michela Wrong, Author of Now it’s Our Turn Kim Schrøder, Google Digital News Senior to Eat Platform Power and Responsibility in the The ‘King of Whoppers’ and Political Fact - Visiting Research Fellow, RISJ Attention Economy Checking in the 2016 US Presidential Race A Reporter’s Discovery during the Financial John Naughton, columnist, the Observer Lucas Graves, Senior Research Fellow, RISJ Statistics and the Battle Against Crisis: Those in Charge were Making it up Misinformation as they Went Along Reporting from Yemen and Other Denise Lievesley, CBE, Principal, Green Katherine Griffiths, Banking Editor, The Times Inaccessible War Zones: Risk and How to Templeton College Find out If you’re in Trouble Laura Silvia Battaglia, Foreign Correspondent Innovation and the Conversation on the and Documentary Maker Rise of China Gary Liu, CEO, South China Morning Post Decline in Media Freedom Worldwide Jodie Ginsberg, Chief Executive, Index on Censorship
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