Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 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, including Ground Wars (winner of the American Political Science Association’s Doris Graber Award for the best book on political communication published in the last ten years), The Power of Platforms (with Sarah Anne Ganter), and Avoiding the News (with Benjamin Toff and Ruth Palmer). In addition, he is co-author of the annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report.
A frequent speaker at academic, industry, and policy-making conferences, he has provided expert advice to both governments and news media companies in several countries. His work has been covered by a wide variety of media all over the world, and he has written for the Financial Times, El País, The Hindu, the Indian Express, the Washington Post, and many other publications. He tweets at @rasmus_kleis.
For a complete overview over Dr Nielsen’s research, please consult his Google Scholar Profile.
Research
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Race and leadership in the news media 2023: evidence from five markets
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Women and leadership in the news media 2023: evidence from 12 markets
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Cómo seguimos el cambio climático: uso de noticias y actitudes en ocho países
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How we follow climate change
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Born in the fire
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La brecha de confianza: cómo y por qué las noticias en las plataformas digitales se ven con más escepticismo que las noticias en general
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Lacuna de confiança: como e por que notícias publicadas em plataformas digitais são vistas com maior ceticismo
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The trust gap: how and why news on digital platforms is viewed more sceptically versus news in general
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How news feels: anticipated anxiety as a factor in news avoidance and a barrier to political engagement
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“It’s a battle you are never going to win”
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Quantifying the “infodemic”: People turned to trustworthy news outlets during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic
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The role of news media knowledge for how people use social media for news in five countries
News
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How evidence can help us fight against COVID-19 misinformation
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How to respond to disinformation while protecting free speech
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We asked people from all over the world how journalists should cover powerful people who lie. Here is what they said
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Valuing journalism in a world of near-infinite content
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Discerning, sceptical, and relatively well informed: news audiences in the 'infodemic'
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The world has changed much faster than the BBC. The new DG needs to confront that
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“We shouldn't address this emergency without communications research expertise”
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What will the coronavirus pandemic mean for the business of news?
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As the outbreak unfolds, here are seven things our past research says about misinformation
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The BBC is under scrutiny. Here’s what research tells us about its role in the UK
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