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Articles tagged Richard Fletcher (10)

Sarah ScireDecember 3, 2024

Tuning out TV news might be behind the decline in media trust. (No, really!)

But: “Does falling trust cause people to change their media use, or do changing media habits cause lower trust?”

Most big legacy news publishers across 10 countries are blocking OpenAI’s crawlers, report finds

Sarah ScireApril 24, 2023

“Tell a more complete story” and other lessons from a new report on mistrust of news media

“The ‘first and most voiced complaint’ from participants was that news coverage of people like them skewed toward negative stories or reflected them in a negative light.”

Hanaa' TameezDecember 3, 2020

Here are four things we still don’t know about trust in news

Are platforms damaging publishers’ brands? And how much is too much transparency?

Denise-Marie OrdwayNovember 20, 2018

Polarizing the network: The most interesting new digital and social media research

Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here’s their latest roundup, including research into how Twitter impacts reporters’ news judgment, how often we remember where we read something, and why Facebook makes you feel bad.

Joshua BentonSeptember 26, 2018

What will happen when newspapers kill print and go online-only? Most of that print audience will just…disappear

A new study of The Independent’s 2016 shift to online-only finds that its print readership didn’t move to digital when the newspaper did. It’s now “more glanced at, it seems, than gorged on.”

Denise-Marie OrdwayAugust 6, 2018

Echoing the network: The most interesting new digital and social media research

Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here’s their latest roundup, including research into Twitter echo chambers, harassment of female journalists, and the presence (or absence) of anecdotes in data journalism.

Denise-Marie OrdwayJanuary 2, 2018

Cross-examining the network: The year in digital and social media research

Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here are what they consider 10 of the most important pieces of new research into digital and social media published in 2017.

Ricardo BiltonNovember 30, 2017

Why don’t people trust the news and social media? A new report lets them explain in their own words

“Rebuilding trust will a long-term process and will require the commitment of publishers, platforms, and consumers over many years.”

Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis NielsenJune 21, 2017

Using social media appears to diversify your news diet, not narrow it

“The central fear, as Eli Pariser has put it, is that ‘news-filtering algorithms narrow what we know.’ This, at least, is the theory.”