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Rasmus Kleis NielsenMay 24, 2018

Media change deniers: Why debates around news need a better evidence base — and how we can get one

“If we let media change deniers drive the conversation, the result will be dumber journalism, less-informed public debate, and ineffective and counterproductive public policy. Even if what they say sometimes ‘feels right.'”

What keeps local journalists in Europe up at night? Consolidation, the duopoly, and retaining new staff

Christine SchmidtApril 23, 2018

Saying “I can just Google it” and then actually Googling it are two different things

Plus other findings from a new study’s interviews with that increasingly common creature, the “news avoider.”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 16, 2018

Could students’ media literacy be compared across countries, like math scores?

Plus: YouTube’s sad reliance on Wikipedia, a problem with Pinterest, and how countries around the world are fighting misinformation.

Rasmus Kleis NielsenMarch 15, 2018

Soft power — not government censorship — is the key to fighting disinformation and “fake news”

“For a soft power approach to disinformation to work, it is critical that all stakeholders do in fact work together…If it fails, cruder responses may be the only ones left. But let’s hope not.”

Denise-Marie OrdwayJanuary 2, 2018

Cross-examining the network: The year in digital and social media research

Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here are what they consider 10 of the most important pieces of new research into digital and social media published in 2017.

Rasmus Kleis NielsenDecember 5, 2017

Is the digital content bubble about to burst? For some of the publishers chasing the broadest scale, maybe

A new study from the Reuters Institute examines the strengths and weaknesses of seven globally ambitious news companies — Brut, Business Insider, De Correspondent, HuffPost, Mashable, Quartz, and Vice.

Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis NielsenJune 21, 2017

Using social media appears to diversify your news diet, not narrow it

“The central fear, as Eli Pariser has put it, is that ‘news-filtering algorithms narrow what we know.’ This, at least, is the theory.”

A few things to watch from this weekend’s International Journalism Festival in Perugia

Digital-native outlets in Europe are more pragmatic than innovative, report suggests

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