About the editors and authors
Dr Neil Thurman is a Professor of Communication in the Department of Media and Communications at LMU Munich, Germany. He is also a Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Journalism at City St George’s, University of London. He led the 2015 survey of journalists in the UK that this study builds on and co-chairs the association that sustains the Worlds of Journalism Study, of which this UK survey is part.
Dr Imke Henkel is Lecturer in Journalism and Media at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Imke’s research interests include the intersection of journalism and democracy, disinformation, and journalists’ professional roles. She is a Worlds of Journalism Study Co-Investigator for the UK.
Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri is a doctoral candidate and research assistant in the Department of Media and Communication at LMU Munich. She studied media and communication studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Stockholm University. Her research focuses on the use of generative AI and automation in journalism as well as related forms of computational journalism. She is a Worlds of Journalism Study Co-Investigator for the UK.
Dr Richard Fletcher is Director of Research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He is primarily interested in global trends in digital news consumption, the use of social media by journalists and news organisations, and more broadly, the relationship between computer-based technologies and journalism.
Dr Rana Arafat is an award-winning assistant professor in digital journalism at the Department of Journalism in City St George’s, University of London. She holds a PhD degree in journalism from the Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG) at Universita della Svizzera italiana in Switzerland. Her research agenda focuses on examining activist/advocacy journalism and journalism innovations including the adoption of automation and AI technologies in newsrooms.
Dr Lindsey Blumell is a reader in the Department of Journalism at City St George’s, University of London. She is also the Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for the School of Communication and Creativity. She specialises in researching human rights, with a special emphasis on gender. Her other interests include identifying sexism in newsrooms, LGBTQIA+ media narratives, and news representations of refugees and asylum seekers.
Dr Glenda Cooper is the head of the Department of Journalism at City St George’s, University of London and a reader in journalism studies. She is the author of Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age (Routledge) and co-editor of Humanitarianism, Communications and Change (Peter Lang). She researches in the fields of journalism ethics, live journalism, media representations of refugees, and media freedom and is the UK director of the European Journalism Observatory.
Dr Lea Hellmueller is Associate Professor of Journalism and Associate Dean of Research at City St George’s, University of London. She is also an affiliated researcher with the Violence & Society Centre. She has published widely on journalism in a globalising world with extensive expertise in comparative journalism research. She grew up in Switzerland and prior to joining academia worked as a journalist in Switzerland, South Africa, and the United States.
Dr François Nel is Associate Professor of Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, where he directs the Journalism Innovation and Leadership Programme and leads the Media Innovation Studio group. He is also an associate director of the Institute for Creativity, Communities, and Culture. An award-winning researcher, consultant, and educator, François works closely with media organisations on strategies for sustainable innovation and leadership. He is the founding author of the Newsmedia Innovation Study and the World News Publishers Outlook report published annually by WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers.
Dr Ayala Panievsky is a Presidential Fellow at City St George’s, University of London. Her research focuses on journalism under attack, media hate, and democratic backsliding. She works with journalists and academics to improve the news coverage of the populist right. Her book, The New Censorship (Footnote Press), will be out in 2025.
Dr Craig T. Robertson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism whose interests include trends in news consumption, audience trust in and perceptions of news, and the impacts of technology on the news industry.
Dr Jane B. Singer is Professor Emerita of Journalism Innovation at City St George’s, University of London. A former print and online journalist, her research has traced the evolution of digital journalism since the mid-1990s, with a focus on journalists’ changing roles, perceptions, norms, and practices.
Dr Jingrong Tong is Senior Lecturer in Media and Information Studies at the University of Sheffield. Her current research focuses on media freedom and politics, computational analysis, and science and technology studies focusing on the interplay between digital technology and journalism, as well as users’ information consumption behaviours.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Thomas Hanitzsch, Corinna Lauerer, Mia Grünewald, Sandra Vucevic, and the whole Worlds of Journalism Study team. We also thank Alex Reid at the Reuters Institute for her efforts in ensuring the timely publication of the report. Proposals for collaboration on further publications based on this survey data should be directed to Dr Neil Thurman, Dr Imke Henkel, or Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri.
The copyediting and design process of the report was overviewed by the Reuters Institute's publications officer Alex Reid. This HTML version was edited by Matthew Leake, and reviewed by Eduardo Suárez, Gretel Kahn and Marina Adami. The charts were created by data journalists from the company Storydata.