Director of Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Professor of Political Communication, University of Oxford
The 2024 Digital News Report out now, documenting scale and scope of 'platform resets' and much more. It is a team effort by lead author Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Craig Robertson, Amy Ross, and myself, working with our country partners. The report covers 47 market accounting for more than half of the world’s population, and is made possible by our 19 funders. A real pleasure to chair the panel discussion at the global launch at Reuters News this morning, featuring Rozina Breen (editor-in-chief, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism), Anna Bateson (CEO of the Guardian Media Group), Rachel Corp (CEO of ITN), and Matthew Keen (Head of Operations and Strategy, Reuters). A key theme this year are the platform resets shaping how people access news and the environment publishers operate in – even as the percentage who say they get news via Facebook continues to decline, a range of other social, video, and messaging platforms are growing in importance for discovery, many focused on on-site video, visuals, and more private experiences. Generally, many of our respondents say they find it at least somewhat easy to tell trustworthy and untrustworthy news and information apart on various platforms, but there are real differences, with more people concerned about how to navigate information on e.g. TikTok, X, Facebook. That and much more in the full report, available here: https://lnkd.in/e7-zcMsH
Ben Brabers
1mo
AI-generated content may lack the depth, analysis, and investigative quality that experienced journalists bring. Journalism often requires critical thinking, ethical considerations, and emotional intelligence, aspects that AI currently struggles to replicate.
I was waiting for him impatiently. Great job. As always.
Nik Usher
1mo
Congrats !!!
Congrats!
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1moI think that the introduction of AI into content journalism could prove to be a game-changer when deciphering and verifying large streams of information. I think the reason why the consumer gets frustrated with journalists on the ground is because as people, with emotions and an engrained political sense, working for organisations with the same political philosophy, without thinking sometimes, they can paint a picture of a particular situation that in some cases is vague and at worst untrue, to the people actually living through a crises or trauma. Would the introduction of AI be a positive, to work alongside the mainstream journalistic approach? In an age where information sources are coming at the consumer from every direction, trying to persuade or even dissuade people from a long held thought process on a particular topic, I think it could be a good tool to have in an ever changing world.