Neil Thurman
@neilthurman.bsky.social
Professor, Dept. of Media & Communication, LMU Munich's @ifkw.bsky.social; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Journalism, @citystgeorges.bsky.social; and former Freigeist Fellow @VolkswagenStiftung.bsky.social.
Please consider helping my student Laura Müller by answering her English language survey on the perception of Instagram ads. The survey is anonymous & only takes around 5 minutes:
www.soscisurvey.de/bachelorarbe...
Laura is completing her BA thesis at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.
www.soscisurvey.de/bachelorarbe...
Laura is completing her BA thesis at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Please consider helping my student Laura Müller by answering her English language survey on the perception of Instagram ads. The survey is anonymous & only takes around 5 minutes:
www.soscisurvey.de/bachelorarbe...
Laura is completing her BA thesis at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.
www.soscisurvey.de/bachelorarbe...
Laura is completing her BA thesis at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.
Which distribution platforms – from print to podcasts – do journalists around the world produce for? 🗞️ 📨 📻 📺 📱 🌍
Which media formats – from audio to animation – do they produce in? 📽️ 📷 🎤 📈 ✍ 🌎
Read the new Worlds of Journalism Study Report to find out:
www.worldsofjournalism.org/wp-content/u...
Which media formats – from audio to animation – do they produce in? 📽️ 📷 🎤 📈 ✍ 🌎
Read the new Worlds of Journalism Study Report to find out:
www.worldsofjournalism.org/wp-content/u...
October 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Which distribution platforms – from print to podcasts – do journalists around the world produce for? 🗞️ 📨 📻 📺 📱 🌍
Which media formats – from audio to animation – do they produce in? 📽️ 📷 🎤 📈 ✍ 🌎
Read the new Worlds of Journalism Study Report to find out:
www.worldsofjournalism.org/wp-content/u...
Which media formats – from audio to animation – do they produce in? 📽️ 📷 🎤 📈 ✍ 🌎
Read the new Worlds of Journalism Study Report to find out:
www.worldsofjournalism.org/wp-content/u...
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The latest edition of our roundup on journalism features stories on a German newspaper going out of print, a car bomb targeting an Italian investigative journalist, and how abandoned news sites are turned into slop farms.
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Journalism Today. 17 Oct 2025
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October 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The latest edition of our roundup on journalism features stories on a German newspaper going out of print, a car bomb targeting an Italian investigative journalist, and how abandoned news sites are turned into slop farms.
Join us every weekday!
Join us every weekday!
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"Ein Klick hier, ein Wisch dort, und schon ist man wieder weg": Was passiert, wenn #Zeitungsverlage ihre Print-Ausgaben einstellen und ihre Lesenden nur noch online erreichen? 📰 #LMU-Professor @neilthurman.bsky.social hat das weltweit untersucht: www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
Zeitungen: „Print hat noch immer Zukunft“
Kommunikationswissenschaftler Neil Thurman über das Ende der gedruckten taz und die Stärken und Schwächen des Digitalen.
www.lmu.de
October 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"Ein Klick hier, ein Wisch dort, und schon ist man wieder weg": Was passiert, wenn #Zeitungsverlage ihre Print-Ausgaben einstellen und ihre Lesenden nur noch online erreichen? 📰 #LMU-Professor @neilthurman.bsky.social hat das weltweit untersucht: www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
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It is almost time for the release of the findings of Wave 3 of the Worlds of Journalism Study. Keep an eye out on our socials for more information. In the meantime, we are pleased to introduce you to all the researchers from across the globe who are involved in the study.
October 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
It is almost time for the release of the findings of Wave 3 of the Worlds of Journalism Study. Keep an eye out on our socials for more information. In the meantime, we are pleased to introduce you to all the researchers from across the globe who are involved in the study.
The academic journal Digital Journalism (DJ) identified "many" hallucinated references in a submitted article. They desk-rejected the submission & told the authors they're "no longer welcome to submit to DJ." You have been warned:
drive.google.com/file/d/1KfLL...
@digitaljournalism.bsky.social
drive.google.com/file/d/1KfLL...
@digitaljournalism.bsky.social
20251010 DJ Newsletter V13 Issue 8 - international edition.pdf
drive.google.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The academic journal Digital Journalism (DJ) identified "many" hallucinated references in a submitted article. They desk-rejected the submission & told the authors they're "no longer welcome to submit to DJ." You have been warned:
drive.google.com/file/d/1KfLL...
@digitaljournalism.bsky.social
drive.google.com/file/d/1KfLL...
@digitaljournalism.bsky.social
A big shout out to all the researchers around the world who collected the data behind the soon-to-be-released Worlds of Journalism Wave 3 top-line findings. Full list of names here:
zenodo.org/records/1528...
zenodo.org/records/1528...
It is almost time for the release of the findings of Wave 3 of the Worlds of Journalism Study. Keep an eye out on our socials for more information.
In the meantime, we are pleased to introduce you to the Executive Committee of the Worlds of Journalism Study.
In the meantime, we are pleased to introduce you to the Executive Committee of the Worlds of Journalism Study.
October 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A big shout out to all the researchers around the world who collected the data behind the soon-to-be-released Worlds of Journalism Wave 3 top-line findings. Full list of names here:
zenodo.org/records/1528...
zenodo.org/records/1528...
Follow @worldsofjournalism.bsky.social
for the forthcoming findings of the 3rd Wave of this global survey, involving surveys of 32,000 journalists in 75 countries. While you're waiting, take a look at the results of the UK-leg of the survey:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
for the forthcoming findings of the 3rd Wave of this global survey, involving surveys of 32,000 journalists in 75 countries. While you're waiting, take a look at the results of the UK-leg of the survey:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Follow @worldsofjournalism.bsky.social
for the forthcoming findings of the 3rd Wave of this global survey, involving surveys of 32,000 journalists in 75 countries. While you're waiting, take a look at the results of the UK-leg of the survey:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
for the forthcoming findings of the 3rd Wave of this global survey, involving surveys of 32,000 journalists in 75 countries. While you're waiting, take a look at the results of the UK-leg of the survey:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
Our new study finds journalists:
👉 with higher AI knowledge and/or
👉 who work at newsrooms where AI is more integrated
see AI in journalism as an opportunity to a significantly higher extent:
openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/35...
That said, AI is seen as more of a threat than an opportunity.
👉 with higher AI knowledge and/or
👉 who work at newsrooms where AI is more integrated
see AI in journalism as an opportunity to a significantly higher extent:
openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/35...
That said, AI is seen as more of a threat than an opportunity.
City Research Online - Is Fear Born of Ignorance? Associations Between Journalists’ AI Attitudes, Knowledge, and Use
openaccess.city.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Our new study finds journalists:
👉 with higher AI knowledge and/or
👉 who work at newsrooms where AI is more integrated
see AI in journalism as an opportunity to a significantly higher extent:
openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/35...
That said, AI is seen as more of a threat than an opportunity.
👉 with higher AI knowledge and/or
👉 who work at newsrooms where AI is more integrated
see AI in journalism as an opportunity to a significantly higher extent:
openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/35...
That said, AI is seen as more of a threat than an opportunity.
Important research from @suttontrust.bsky.social about privilege of 100 elite media editors/presenters. Our @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report looks wider—at ALL UK journalists. We found over 22% privately educated. Well above the 7% nationwide:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...
Pleased to write about working class access to the media industry in @theguardian.com today. Our Elitist Britain research out today shows that almost half of columnists, commentators and top podcast hosts went to private schools. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This news just in: we hoped the middle- and upper-class capture of the media would lessen. It’s got worse | Carl Cullinane
Since our last survey, we find more columnists, podcasters and executives are from privileged backgrounds. That’s too narrow a segment of society, says Carl Cullinane, director of research and policy ...
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Important research from @suttontrust.bsky.social about privilege of 100 elite media editors/presenters. Our @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report looks wider—at ALL UK journalists. We found over 22% privately educated. Well above the 7% nationwide:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...
On 31 Dec, the @ajc.com will quit print & go online-only. What will happen to the audience attention it attracts? If the pattern's the same as @richardfletcher.bsky.social & I found for @the-independent.com, then none of the print reading mins will move online:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
On 31 Dec, the @ajc.com will quit print & go online-only. What will happen to the audience attention it attracts? If the pattern's the same as @richardfletcher.bsky.social & I found for @the-independent.com, then none of the print reading mins will move online:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We're happy to share the full questionnaire we used in our recent survey of UK journalists on artificial intelligence:
figshare.com/articles/onl...
@sinatk.bsky.social & I designed the questionnaire with the assistance of students from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.
figshare.com/articles/onl...
@sinatk.bsky.social & I designed the questionnaire with the assistance of students from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.
Quantitative survey questionnaire on artificial intelligence (AI) in journalism fielded to journalists
A survey fielded between 29th August and 4th November 2024 on UK journalists' use of artificial intelligence (AI). The survey contains questions about journalists’:Personal characteristics, specifical...
figshare.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We're happy to share the full questionnaire we used in our recent survey of UK journalists on artificial intelligence:
figshare.com/articles/onl...
@sinatk.bsky.social & I designed the questionnaire with the assistance of students from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.
figshare.com/articles/onl...
@sinatk.bsky.social & I designed the questionnaire with the assistance of students from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.
New @indexoncensorship.org piece on our @reutersinstitute.bsky.social UK Journalists report. Mark Stimpson highlights our findings on UK journalists' diversity; experience of safety threats; & thoughts on media freedom, objectivity, & their societal roles:
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/06/uk-j...
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/06/uk-j...
UK journalists face growing personal threats and say media freedom is at risk - Index on Censorship
A new Reuters Institute report on the British media landscape found that nearly half of those surveyed think the truth is shaped by people in power
www.indexoncensorship.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
New @indexoncensorship.org piece on our @reutersinstitute.bsky.social UK Journalists report. Mark Stimpson highlights our findings on UK journalists' diversity; experience of safety threats; & thoughts on media freedom, objectivity, & their societal roles:
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/06/uk-j...
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/06/uk-j...
Pornhub is to suspend their site in France in protest at a new age verification law:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
In our research, we found that 41% of 15–17-year-olds in France had seen porn via such porn sites, on average within the last month:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
In our research, we found that 41% of 15–17-year-olds in France had seen porn via such porn sites, on average within the last month:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
June 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Pornhub is to suspend their site in France in protest at a new age verification law:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
In our research, we found that 41% of 15–17-year-olds in France had seen porn via such porn sites, on average within the last month:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
In our research, we found that 41% of 15–17-year-olds in France had seen porn via such porn sites, on average within the last month:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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@mitalilive.bsky.social @robynvinter.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social
and Kira Richards discussed our recent #UKJournalists report @cityjournalism.bsky.social
Here's a summary of the panel by @marinaadami.bsky.social
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-cha...
and Kira Richards discussed our recent #UKJournalists report @cityjournalism.bsky.social
Here's a summary of the panel by @marinaadami.bsky.social
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-cha...
How to change UK journalism: what we learnt at the launch of our report on the profession today
A panel moderated by our Director, Mitali Mukherjee, discussed tech disruption, a lack of diversity and the uncertain future of young journalists.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
April 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
@mitalilive.bsky.social @robynvinter.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social
and Kira Richards discussed our recent #UKJournalists report @cityjournalism.bsky.social
Here's a summary of the panel by @marinaadami.bsky.social
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-cha...
and Kira Richards discussed our recent #UKJournalists report @cityjournalism.bsky.social
Here's a summary of the panel by @marinaadami.bsky.social
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-cha...
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Tonight we'll present our new report on UK journalists in the 2020s at this event at @cityjournalism.bsky.social. Speakers include
@robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards
Register to join in person now
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@robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards
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April 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Tonight we'll present our new report on UK journalists in the 2020s at this event at @cityjournalism.bsky.social. Speakers include
@robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards
Register to join in person now
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@robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards
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Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? And how has all this changed in the last decade? Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report answers these questions. It's based on our representative survey of 1130 UK journalists:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...
April 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? And how has all this changed in the last decade? Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report answers these questions. It's based on our representative survey of 1130 UK journalists:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...
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On Monday we'll present our new report on UK journalists in the 2020s at this event at @cityjournalism.bsky.social. Speakers include
@robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards
Register to join in person now
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@robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards
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April 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
On Monday we'll present our new report on UK journalists in the 2020s at this event at @cityjournalism.bsky.social. Speakers include
@robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards
Register to join in person now
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@robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards
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On Monday we'll present our new report on UK journalists in the 2020s at this event at @cityjournalism.bsky.social. Speakers include
@robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards
Register to join in person now
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@robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards
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April 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
On Monday we'll present our new report on UK journalists in the 2020s at this event at @cityjournalism.bsky.social. Speakers include
@robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards
Register to join in person now
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@robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards
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Today we launched a report on UK journalists: who they are, how they work and what they think. Edited by @neilthurman.bsky.social @imkehenkel.bsky.social Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri & @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it's based on a 2023 representative survey
📱Read it
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🧵Findings in thread
📱Read it
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🧵Findings in thread
April 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Today we launched a report on UK journalists: who they are, how they work and what they think. Edited by @neilthurman.bsky.social @imkehenkel.bsky.social Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri & @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it's based on a 2023 representative survey
📱Read it
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🧵Findings in thread
📱Read it
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🧵Findings in thread
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Interested in the state of journalism in the UK? Especially keen to hear about local UK journalism?
Save the date - 1st May 6pm - when @leedsunimedia.bsky.social will host the regional launch for our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report.
Registration open here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Save the date - 1st May 6pm - when @leedsunimedia.bsky.social will host the regional launch for our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report.
Registration open here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
UK Journalists in the 2020s: Regional launch of major new report on the state of journalism in the UK
Join the School’s researchers and a panel of local journalists and experts to hear about the main findings from the report and for a discussion on the implications for the future of local journalism
ahc.leeds.ac.uk
April 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Interested in the state of journalism in the UK? Especially keen to hear about local UK journalism?
Save the date - 1st May 6pm - when @leedsunimedia.bsky.social will host the regional launch for our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report.
Registration open here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Save the date - 1st May 6pm - when @leedsunimedia.bsky.social will host the regional launch for our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report.
Registration open here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
Delighted that @robynvinter.bsky.social, the North of England correspondent at @theguardian.com, is joining us as a panelist at the launch event for our major new report. Sign up via the link below to reserve your spot.
Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? What's changed in the last decade? Our forthcoming @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report will answer these questions. Registration now open for the launch event @citystgeorges.bsky.social at 6pm, 28 April:
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
UK Journalists in the 2020s: Launch Event at City St George's, University of London | City, University of London
New study examines who contemporary UK journalists are, how they work and what they think
www.city.ac.uk
March 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Delighted that @robynvinter.bsky.social, the North of England correspondent at @theguardian.com, is joining us as a panelist at the launch event for our major new report. Sign up via the link below to reserve your spot.
We analysed millions of visits to German & Austrian news websites' paywalls in our new study. It generated press coverage in the US & the UK but this is the 1st coverage in Germany or Austria, although the article is behind HORIZONT's paywall, appropriately:
www.horizont.at/medien/news/...
www.horizont.at/medien/news/...
Neue Studie: Was bei Paywalls entscheidend ist
Wann entscheiden sich Nutzer:innen ein Online-Abo abzuschließen? Die Antwort auf diese Frage hängt von vielen kleinen Stellschrauben ab. Eine Studie hat diese nun in Österreich und Deutschland untersu...
www.horizont.at
March 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We analysed millions of visits to German & Austrian news websites' paywalls in our new study. It generated press coverage in the US & the UK but this is the 1st coverage in Germany or Austria, although the article is behind HORIZONT's paywall, appropriately:
www.horizont.at/medien/news/...
www.horizont.at/medien/news/...
What a relief to have replaced the Twitter/X feed on my website's homepage with a feed of my @bsky.app posts. It feels so much better. A 3rd party solution integrated nicely with the Contao CMS I'm using:
neilthurman.com
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February 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
What a relief to have replaced the Twitter/X feed on my website's homepage with a feed of my @bsky.app posts. It feels so much better. A 3rd party solution integrated nicely with the Contao CMS I'm using:
neilthurman.com
neilthurman.com
Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? What's changed in the last decade? Our forthcoming @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report will answer these questions. Registration now open for the launch event @citystgeorges.bsky.social at 6pm, 28 April:
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
UK Journalists in the 2020s: Launch Event at City St George's, University of London | City, University of London
New study examines who contemporary UK journalists are, how they work and what they think
www.city.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? What's changed in the last decade? Our forthcoming @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report will answer these questions. Registration now open for the launch event @citystgeorges.bsky.social at 6pm, 28 April:
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...