Biography

I am Director of Research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.

My research focuses on global trends in digital news consumption, comparative media, audience fragmentation and polarization, the effects of search engines and social media on news use, trust in the news, and paying for news.

I am co-principal investigator on three major research projects:

• Digital News project: studying digital news, featuring the world’s largest annual survey of global news consumption.
• Trust in News project: studying what digital news sources people trust, why they trust them, and what publishers and platforms can do to help.
• UK COVID-19 News and Information project: analysing how the British public navigates information and misinformation about coronavirus.

I am fortunate enough to run a research team consisting of some of the best media and communication researchers in the world.

I’ve won several awards for my research, including the 2018 International Communication Association Journalism Studies division’s Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Journal Article of the Year Award (with Rasmus Kleis Nielsen) for Are News Audiences Increasingly Fragmented?, and Top Faculty Paper in 2019 for Large, Loyal, Lingering? (with Neil Thurman and Thiemo Hensmann).