Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford.
His research is focused on the changing role of news and media in our societies. He has written extensively about journalism, digital media, the business of news, political communication, misinformation and related topics in dozens of scholarly articles, edited volumes, and books, including Ground Wars (winner of the American Political Science Association’s Doris Graber Award for the best book on political communication published in the last ten years), The Power of Platforms (with Sarah Anne Ganter), and Avoiding the News (with Benjamin Toff and Ruth Palmer). In addition, he is co-author of the annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report.
A frequent speaker at academic, industry, and policy-making conferences, he has provided expert advice to both governments and news media companies in several countries. His work has been covered by a wide variety of media all over the world, and he has written for the Financial Times, El País, The Hindu, the Indian Express, the Washington Post, and many other publications. He tweets at @rasmus_kleis.
For a complete overview over Dr Nielsen’s research, please consult his Google Scholar Profile.
Research
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What does the public in six countries think of generative AI in news?
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‘I’m unable to’: How generative AI chatbots respond when asked for the latest news
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Race and leadership in the news media 2024: Evidence from five markets
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Mujeres y liderazgo en los medios informativos en 2024: evidencias de 12 mercados
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Women and leadership in the news media 2024: Evidence from 12 markets
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Estratégias para a construção de confiança nas notícias
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Estrategias para construir confianza en las noticias
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Strategies for building trust in news: What the public say they want across four countries
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Notícias para os poderosos e privilegiados
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Noticias para los poderosos y los privilegiados
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News for the powerful and privileged
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Mujeres y liderazgo en los medios informativos en 2023: evidencias de 12 mercados
News
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How AI chatbots responded to questions about the 2024 UK election
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How news coverage, often uncritical, helps build up the AI hype
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How the news ecosystem might look like in the age of generative AI
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Evidence, engagement, and expansion: New Reuters Institute work on AI and the future of news
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Five things news media can do to respond to consistent news avoidance
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Five reasons for evidence-based optimism from the Digital News Report 2023
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How we approached the Digital News Report 2023
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The research of the Reuters Institute shouldn't be abused to attack Rappler
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The power of platforms
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Can news help? New evidence on the links between news use and misinformation
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Grappling with the journalists' trilemma: how to rethink impartiality right now
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