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 currently co-principal investigator on two major research projects:

• Digital News project: studying digital news, featuring the world’s largest annual survey of global news consumption, the Digital News Report.
• AI and the Future of News: exploring how news media use AI, how AI is used on news, and how the public thinks about AI and news.

Previously I have been co-principal investigator on a range of projects, including the Trust in News project and the UK COVID-19 News and Information project. I also supervise the research work of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network.

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?.