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Join our one-day workshops that connect journalists with experts from around the world.

The series

Our series of Digital Deep Dives team journalists with world-leading academics to:

  • combine academic expertise with the global reach of journalists
  • connect journalists with cutting-edge resources and knowledge
  • create global support networks of journalists
  • prepare journalists for the fundamental challenges facing the industry

The sessions are free to attend but we do ask journalists to commit to participating for the entirety of the event. 

Misinformation - 13 March or 10 April 2024

**Applications are closed**

In a year of ongoing wars, climate emergency and pivotal elections, journalists need access to the latest research and thinking on misinformation. Join us for a deep dive featuring:

  • Jonathan Corpus Ong is Associate Professor of Global Digital Media at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Jonathan's research areas include global media ethics, digital politics, and the anthropology of humanitarianism. In his disinformation studies research, Jonathan uses ethnography to understand the social identities, work arrangements and moral justifications of "paid trolls" and political public relations strategists. 
  • Sumitra Badrinathan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics, Governance & Economics at American University, Washington DC. Her research focuses on political communication in South Asia, with an emphasis on new platforms like WhatsApp and their effects on political misinformation, media trust, and the quality of democracy.
  • Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director of the Reuters Institute 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.

This online Digital Deep Dive involves presentations and discussions covering what we know about misinformation, including how audiences engage with it, how it's produced and efforts to counter it. The event is designed to be interactive and participants will have plenty of time to ask questions and to discuss the issues raised.

Who should apply? These sessions are designed for working journalists (freelance or full-time) whose work will be enhanced by access to the experts above. 

What's involved? The Deep Dive takes place via Zoom at 13:00-16:30 (UK time) on two separate dates: Wednesday 13 March and Wednesday 10 April. Participants will attend on one of the dates.

How to apply? **Applications are now closed**

Past sessions
Content moderation - 9 June 2022 image/svg+xml image/svg+xml

Speakers:

  • Dr David Kayeformer UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
  • Dr Natali Helberger, a Professor of Information Law at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam.
  • Mishi Choudhary, technology lawyer and an online civil liberties activist
  • Rasmus Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute
Climate change - 20 May 2022 image/svg+xml image/svg+xml

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Press freedom - 28 June 2021 image/svg+xml image/svg+xml

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Climate change reporting - 20 April 2021 image/svg+xml image/svg+xml

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Journalism and AI - 29 March 2021 image/svg+xml image/svg+xml

Speakers:

  • Gina Neff, Professor of Technology & Society, Oxford Internet Institute
  • Michael Osborne, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering Science
  • Rasmus Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute
  • Meera Selva, Deputy Director, Reuters Institute
Vaccines and public health - 25 February 2021 image/svg+xml image/svg+xml

Speakers:

  • Peter Drobac, Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School
  • Denise Lievesley, Former Principal, Green Templeton College; Former Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Public Policy and Professor of Social Statistics at King’s College London
  • Rasmus Nielsen, Director, Reuters Institute
  • Meera Selva, Deputy Director, Reuters Institute