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Welcome to this term's Journalist Fellows

Journalists from across the world begin their fellowship at the Reuters Institute

Public service media are struggling to reach younger, less educated audiences and risk “decline and ultimately irrelevance”

Report looks at the reach of public service media in eight European countries

News

Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series announced

Wednesdays, 2pm, Green Templeton College, Oxford. Press freedom, innovation, diversity and broad takes on the state of journalism among the topics in this term's talks

Research Article

Keeping it local: Can collaborations help save local public interest journalism?

Journalist Fellow paper by Vanessa Wiltshire explores journalistic collaborations in the UK and US

Digital News Report 2019 in 3 minutes

Watch our animated video with the key findings from the Digital News Report 2019.

Exploring the future of journalism worldwide through debate, engagement, and research

What we do

Research Article

How Young People Consume News and The Implications For Mainstream Media

Report looks at the different news habits and expectations of the news media among younger people, and how news outlets can reach and engage this audience

Research Article

Are Journalists Today’s Coal Miners?

The Struggle for Talent and Diversity in Modern Newsrooms – A Study on Journalists in Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom

Digital News Report 2019

The Digital News Report is the world’s largest international comparative study tracking online news access and engagement over 38 countries. The 2019 report focuses on the issues of trust and misinformation, subscriptions, levels of news avoidance, the changing fortunes of social media platforms and how they are used for news, populism's impact and much more.

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Journalist Fellowship Programme 2019/20

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Media Leadership Programmes

The Reuters Institute offers Media Leadership Programmes throughout the year. Previous attendees have come from the BBC, News UK, JP/Politikens Hus and other world-leading media organisations. Leading Newsroom Change is designed for senior journalists, editors and newsroom managers who would like further insight into becoming an effective newsroom leader. Future Leaders in News is for those who have recently assumed a news leadership role or aspire to hold one.

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In the news

Swiss broadcaster covers DNR-influenced report

The Quality of the Media Yearbook, which features survey data from our Digital News Report, by the Foeg research institute at the University of Zurich discussed on Swiss television

In the news

Rasmus Nielsen quoted in op-ed on media's relations with politicians

RISJ Director's comments that elements of the media are being played by politicians cited in opinion piece.

In the news

Twitter's guidelines for politicians

RISJ Director Rasmus Nielsen interviewed in the I about Twitter's guidelines for posts by world leaders

October

Event

Political attacks on journalism in central and eastern Europe

Meera Selva, Director, Journalist Fellowship Programme, Reuters Institute

2.00pm, Wednesday 23 October 2019

October

Event

The state of journalism

Dorothy Byrne, head of news and current affairs, Channel 4 Television, speaks at Green Templeton College, Oxford, 2pm, 30 Oct 2019

2.00pm, Wednesday 30 October 2019

Strengthening Journalism Globally

655 Journalist Fellows in 36 years

Our Journalism Fellowship Programme brings outstanding international journalists to Oxford from all over the world.

Journalist Fellows from 92 countries

The Fellowship Programme offers journalists a chance to step back, reflect and connect.