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Three new Journalist Fellows' papers now available online
Three recent Reuters journalist fellows have published their research findings online: Cherelle Jackson, an environment journalist from Samoa, has written the first ever study of how the media in her country have covered...read more ›
David Butler ends his renowned Friday evening seminar series at Nuffield College
For the first time in 53 years, Dr David Butler sat on the chair usually reserved for the guest of his legendary Media and Politics seminar at Nuffield College, Oxford. On Friday evening 4th of June, the people gathered in the...read more ›
Former Fellow wins Grantham Prize for excellence in environmental reporting
Reuters Fellowship alumna Alanna Mitchell (2002), has recently been awarded the prestigious Grantham Prize for her book Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis. Read more hereread more ›
Power without Responsibility
Professor Jean Seaton highlighted the complex relationship between the media and the effect it has had on society. She pointed out that one main change in the last 70-80 years has been the visualisation of communication. The...read more ›
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News and the Internet – New report from the OECD
This report is the most up to date and comprehensive account of how news organisations are being affected by the internet across the OECD and how they and policymakers are responding. RISJ Director, Dr David Levy advised the OECD...read more ›
The Watchdog’s New Bark
The Watergate era in which journalists played the role of heroic, independent investigators is receding, according to New Zealand’s Dr Donald Matheson. Or perhaps it was always a myth.read more ›
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Is the internet killing newspapers?
Is the internet killing newspapers? On June 8, RISJ Postdoctoral Research Fellow Rasmus Kleis Nielsen presented preliminary research conducted with David Levy that suggests otherwise at a conference at the University of...read more ›
Tablets - a second life for newspapers and magazines?
Faced with falling circulation and declining revenue, the print media industry is facing a quandary. What should it do? Keep cutting staff and costs, hoping things turn around, until nothing more is left to cut? Throw in the...read more ›
Professional Journalism, citizen journalists, militaries and protestors: telling the story, setting the context and staying safe
David Schlesinger's sobering talk began with the hard facts - last year, 71 journalists were killed worldwide while doing their job. Almost all of those who died were locals working in their own countries. And 75% of those...read more ›
The Future of News across the World
Journalism today faces not only one crisis, but many crises that differ from country to country. On 16th April, the RISJ held a panel discussion at Thomson Reuters, New York on "The Future of News: perspectives from the US,...read more ›