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DOI: 10.60625/risj-p5q1-r080

What strategies do public service media have for news distribution on social media? How do they organise their work? How do they react to changes in the ranking algorithms and products?

A new Reuters Institute report looks at how public service news organisations in six European countries (Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK) deliver news via social media at a time when news use is increasingly driven by referrals or consumed off-site on various platforms. The analysis is based on 14 interviews conducted between November 2017 and January 2018, primarily with senior editors and managers for news, or social media for news specifically. We complement the interviews with various analyses of how public service media perform on social media. The social media platforms of our focus are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Explore the report, part of the Digital News Project, online here.

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Published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism with the support of the Google and the Digital News Initiative.

 

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Meet the authors

Prof. Annika Sehl

Professor Annika Sehl holds the Chair of Journalism with a Focus on Media Structures and Society at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and is a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) at the University... Read more about Prof. Annika Sehl

Dr Alessio Cornia

Dr Alessio Cornia is a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. His main area of research interest is the comparative research of journalism, with a focus on news industry developments, digital news, EU journalism,... Read more about Dr Alessio Cornia

Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is a Professor at the Department of Communication of the University of Copenhagen and a Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Before leaving Oxford in 2024, he worked at the Institute,... Read more about Prof. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen