Staff
Senior Management
Steering Committee
Advisory Board
Researchers
Journalist Fellows
Visiting Fellows
Staff
Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Director of the Reuters Institute
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Profess
Mitali Mukherjee
Director of our Journalist Programmes
Mitali Mukherjee is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism in India.
Federica Cherubini
Director of Leadership Development
Federica is an expert in newsroom operations and organisational change, with ten years of experience in publishers and networks worldwide.
Dr Richard Fletcher
Director of Research
Richard is the Director of Research at the Reuters Institute. He is primarily interested in digital news consumption and comparative media research.
Kate Hanneford-Smith
Director of Operations
Kate is responsible for the day-to-day management and administration of the Institute and plays a lead role in setting financial and operational strategy.
Eduardo Suárez
Head of Editorial
Eduardo is the co-founder of two news startups and an award-winning senior journalist with experience in Europe and the United States.
Senior Management
Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Director of the Reuters Institute
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Profess
Mitali Mukherjee
Director of our Journalist Programmes
Mitali Mukherjee is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print and digital journalism in India.
Federica Cherubini
Director of Leadership Development
Federica is an expert in newsroom operations and organisational change, with ten years of experience in publishers and networks worldwide.
Dr Richard Fletcher
Director of Research
Richard is the Director of Research at the Reuters Institute. He is primarily interested in digital news consumption and comparative media research.
Kate Hanneford-Smith
Director of Operations
Kate is responsible for the day-to-day management and administration of the Institute and plays a lead role in setting financial and operational strategy.
Eduardo Suárez
Head of Editorial
Eduardo is the co-founder of two news startups and an award-winning senior journalist with experience in Europe and the United States.
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee meets several times throughout the year and has general oversight of the Reuters Institute. It approves long-term planning, financial statements, fundraising strategies and other activities. It reports to key stakeholders within the University of Oxford and supports our relationship with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Alan Rusbridger
Editor, Prospect magazine
Alan is the Chair of our Steering Committee and the former Editor-in-Chief of the Guardian.
Professor Wale Adebanwi
Rhodes Professor of Race Relations and Director, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Wale has held a number of senior journalistic roles and has taught around the world in the field of African Studies.
Sir Michael Dixon
Principal, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
Prior to his role leading our affiliate college, Sir Michael was the Director General of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Director of London's Natural History Museum.
Professor Timothy Garton Ash
Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford
Timothy is a leading expert on European affairs and writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers worldwide.
Jane Green
Professor of Political Science and British Politics
Director of the Nuffield Politics Research Centre and Westminster Bridge and Co-Director of the British Election Study
Helen Lewis
Journalist, The Atlantic
Helen is a leading UK journalist, author and the inaugural Oxford University Women in the Humanities Honorary Writing Fellow.
Advisory Board
Our advisory board is made up of high profile international figures from news organisations, technology companies, media policymaking and academia. Board members provide valuable insight and suggestions for our work.
Lord Patten of Barnes
Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Lord Patten is the Chair of the RISJ's Advisory Board. He is a life peer, and was formerly an MP and government minister, the Chairman of the BBC Trust for three years, and was the last Governor of Hong Kong.
Zaffar Abbas
Editor, Dawn
Zaffar is the editor of Dawn, Pakistan’s leading English language newspaper
Professor Stephen Ansolabehere
Professor of Political Science, Harvard University
Stephen is one of the leading academic experts on U.S. elections and voting behaviour.
Marty Baron
Former Executive Editor, The Washington Post
Marty is the former Executive Editor of The Washington Post and former editor of the Boston Globe and Miami Herald.
Helen Boaden
Council member, Royal Academy of Arts; Board member, UK Statistics Authority
Helen is a council member of the Royal Academy of Arts, a non-executive board member of the UK Statistics Authority, and a former Director of BBC News.
Campbell Brown
Senior Advisor, TollBit
Campbell is a senior adviser at AI startup TollBit
Researchers
Dr Richard Fletcher
Director of Research
Richard is the Director of Research at the Reuters Institute. He is primarily interested in digital news consumption and comparative media research.
Tali Aharoni
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Tali is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow who works on the Digital News Project. Her research interests include news audiences, trust, news avoidance, social media, and journalistic production.
Dr Waqas Ejaz
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Waqas is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Oxford Climate Journalism Network
Dr Craig T. Robertson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Craig is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow who works on the Digital News Project. His focus is on news trust and credibility, fact-checking and verification.
Dr Amy Ross Arguedas
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Amy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow who works on the Trust in News Project. Her dissertation looked at how medical information circulated in the news media, social media, clinical practice, and scientific research.
Dr Felix Simon
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Felix M. Simon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in AI and Digital News and is a finishing doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII).
Journalist Fellows
Here are the Journalist Fellows currently at the Reuters Institute. You can also find recent Journalist Fellow alumni and Journalist Fellows pre-2006.
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Award-winning journalist and editor at the New York Times
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is an award-winning journalist, book editor, columnist, host, and creative with focuses on features and profiles on identity, culture, lifestyle, travel, media, and social politics.
Laura Gartry
Digital Producer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Laura Gartry is the digital producer for Australia's premier investigative program Four Corners. She specialises in long-form storytelling and has edited award winning interactive digital productions. She has also worked as a TV news journalist for ABC News across Australia.
Osamah Golpy
Deputy Head, Assignment Desk, Rudaw Media Network
Osamah Golpy is deputy head of assignment at the Erbil-based Rudaw Media Network. His role is to assign and oversee a diverse team of reporters both at home and abroad. He is a language lover; he is Kurdish, knows English and Persian, and has good knowledge of Arabic.
Hanna Käyhkö
Editor-in-chief, Karjalan Heili
Hanna has worked as a journalist for 22 years at many newspapers in Finland. Today, she leads a town newspaper published in Joensuu, Eastern Finland, called Karjalan Heili. This 52-year-old, award-winning city newspaper is distributed weekly to 53,000 households.
Signe Ferslev Pedersen
Journalist and Editor, Finans - Jyllands-Posten
Signe Ferslev is an experienced business journalist and editor reporting on ESG related topics, and leading coverage of ESG at Finans, a Danish digital business media under the banner of Jyllands-Posten. She is also the host of the weekly podcast, "Finans Impact."
Hagar Shezaf
West Bank correspondent, Haaretz
Hagar Shezaf is Haaretz's West Bank correspondent since 2019. Based in Tel Aviv, she covers mostly settler, Palestinian and military affairs in the West Bank for the paper. She is the recipient of the Israel Press Institute prize for her coverage.
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