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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

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

Research Article

Online Audience Engagement with Legacy and Digital-Born News Media in the 2019 Indian Elections

Online news audiences during Indian elections were not as fragmented as you may think, according to new research

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

Die Zeit addressses controversy around our public service news research

German national weekly newspaper questions whether media coverage of our report into public service broadcasters is entirely accurate

In the news

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung covers research into public service media

Report into European public broadcasters discussed in light of industrial action in Germany

In the news

Online media news site covers research into public service media

Übermedien discussed the reception in Germany of our report into the reach of public broadcasters

October

Event

Healing words - Innovations in health reporting

Mia Malan, editor in chief, Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism, speaks at Green Templeton College, Oxford, 2pm, 16 Oct

2.00pm, Wednesday 16 October 2019

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

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.