Richard Fletcher

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• The Link Between Changing News Use and Trust: Longitudinal Analysis of 46 Countries
• Exposure to Partisan News and Its Impact on Social Polarization and Vote Choice: Evidence From the 2022 Brazilian Elections
• How Generative AI Chatbots Responded to Questions and Fact-checks about the 2024 UK General Election
• The Electoral Misinformation Nexus: How News Consumption, Platform Use, and Trust in News Influence Belief in Electoral Misinformation
• What Social Networks Did Political Parties Use Most in 2024?
• Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Canberra
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024
• What Does the Public in Six Countries Think of Generative AI in News?
• Trust Is Key: Determinants of False Beliefs about Climate Change in Eight Countries
• News Participation is Declining: Evidence from 46 Countries between 2015 and 2022
• 'I'm Unable To': How Generative AI Chatbots Respond when Asked for the Latest News
• Exploring Responses to Mainstream News Among Heavy and Non-News Users: From High-Effort Pragmatic Scepticism to Low Effort Cynical Disengagement
• How Many News Websites Block AI Crawlers?
• Climate Change News Audiences: Analysis of News Use and Attitudes in Eight Countries
• Shortcuts to Trust: Relying on Cues to Judge Online News from Unfamiliar Sources on Digital Platforms
• Domain-Specific Influence on Facebook: How Topic Matters When Assessing Influential Accounts in Four Countries
• Comparing the Platformization of News Media Systems: A Cross-Country Analysis
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023
• "Fair and Balanced": What News Audiences in Four Countries Mean When They Say They Prefer Impartial News
• News for the Powerful and Privileged: How Misrepresentation and Underrepresentation of Disadvantaged Communities Undermine Their Trust in News
• News Can Help! The Impact of News Media and Digital Platforms on Awareness of and Belief in Misinformation
• Mapping the Website and Mobile Audiences of Russia's Foreign Communication Outlets, RT and Sputnik, Across 21 Countries
• How We Follow Climate Change: Climate News Use and Attitudes in Eight Countries
• The Trust Gap: How and Why News on Digital Platforms is Viewed More Sceptically Versus News in General
• Quantifying the "Infodemic": People Turned to Trustworthy News Outlets During the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic
• "It’s a Battle You Are Never Going to Win": Perspectives from Journalists in Four Countries on How Digital Media Platforms Undermine Trust in News
• The Role of News Media Knowledge For How People Use Social Media For News in Five Countries
• Concentration of Online News Traffic and Publishers' Reliance on Platform Referrals: Evidence From Passive Tracking Data in the UK
• Forbidden Fruit or Soured Grapes: Long-term Effects of the Temporary Unavailability and Rationing of US News Websites on their Consumption from the European Union
• The Watchdog Press in the Doghouse: A Comparative Study of Attitudes about Accountability Journalism, Trust in News, and News Avoidance
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022
• Snap Judgements: How Audiences Who Lack Trust in News Navigate Information on Digital Platforms
• Serving on Council of Europe MSI-RES Committee of Experts on Increasing Resilience of Media
• Giving evidence to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee
• Echo Chambers, Filter Bubbles and Polarisation: A Literature Review
• Depth and Breadth: How News Organisations Navigate Trade-offs Around Building Trust in News
• Overcoming Indifference: What Attitudes Towards News Tell Us About Building Trust
• How Many People Live in Politically Partisan Online News Echo Chambers in Different Countries?
• More Diverse, More Politically Varied: How Social Media, Search Engines and Aggregators Shape News Repertoires in the United Kingdom
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021
• An Ongoing Infodemic: How People in Eight Countries Access News and Information about Coronavirus A Year Into the Pandemic
• Listening to What Trust in News Means to Users: Qualitative Evidence from Four Countries
• What We Think We Know and What We Want to Know: Perspectives on Trust in News in a Changing World
• How News Audiences Think About Misinformation Across the World
• New Project: The Rise of Mistrust
• Communications in the Coronavirus Crisis: Lessons for the Second Wave
• New website
• Most in the UK Say News Media have Helped Them Respond to COVID-19, But a Third Say News Coverage Has Made the Crisis Worse
• Consistent and Widespread Belief in the Threat of COVID-19 to the UK Economy
• Democratic Creative Destruction? The Effect of a Changing Media Landscape on Democracy
• News Avoidance in the UK Remains High as Lockdown Restrictions are Eased
• Information Inequality in the UK Coronavirus Communications Crisis
• Majority Think UK Government COVID-19 Response Worse than Other Developed Countries, Almost Half Say Response Too Focused on Protecting the Economy
• Social Media Very Widely Used, Use for News and Information about COVID-19 Declining
• Even Low News Users Say They Are Willing to Take Preventive Measures Against COVID-19
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020
• Are Netflix and Spotify Subscribers More Likely to Pay for Online News? Comparative Analysis of Data from Six Countries
• Trust in UK Government and News Media COVID-19 Information Down, Concerns Over Misinformation from Government and Politicians Up
• Initial Surge in News Use Around Coronavirus in the UK has been Followed by Significant Increase in News Avoidance
• Are News Outlets Viewed in the Same Way by Experts and the Public? A Comparison across 23 European Countries
• UK Public Opinion Polarised on News Coverage of Government Coronavirus Response, and Concern over Misinformation
• News Media Broadly Trusted as Source of Coronavirus Information, Views of UK Government Response Highly Polarised
• Navigating the 'Infodemic': How People in Six Countries Access and Rate News and Information about Coronavirus
• Polarization and Partisanship: Key Drivers of Distrust in Media Old and New?
• Crowding Out: Is there Evidence that Public Service Media Harm Markets? A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Commercial Television and Online News Providers
• A Mile Wide, an Inch Deep: Online News and Media Use in the 2019 UK General Election
• Large, Loyal, Lingering? An Analysis of Online Overseas Audiences for UK News Brands
• How Polarized are Online and Offline News Audiences? A Comparative Analysis of Twelve Countries
• Effects of a Magazine’s Move to Online-Only: Post-Print Audience Attention and Readership Retention Revisited
• How Brexit Referendum Voters Use News
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019
• Polarisation and the News Media in Europe
• Consumptive News Feed Curation on Social Media as Proactive Personalization: A Study of Six East Asian Markets
• News Brand Attribution in Distributed Environments: Do People Know Where They Get Their News?
• Are Newspapers Heading Towards Post-Print Obscurity? A Case-Study of The Independent’s Transition to Online-Only
• Automated Serendipity: The Effect of Using Search Engines on News Repertoire Diversity and Balance
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018
• Platform Reliance, Information Intermediaries, and News Diversity: A Look at the Evidence
• Generalised Scepticism: How People Navigate News on Social Media
• Measuring the Reach of 'Fake News' and Online Disinformation in Europe
• Has Digital Distribution Rejuvenated Readership? Revisiting the Age Demographics of Newspaper Consumption
• Bias, Bullshit and Lies: Audience Perspectives on Low Trust in the Media
• Are People Incidentally Exposed to News on Social Media? A Comparative Analysis
• Are News Audiences Increasingly Fragmented? A Cross‐National Comparative Analysis of Cross‐Platform News Audience Fragmentation and Duplication
• Building the 'Truthmeter': Training Algorithms to Assess the Credibility of Social Media Sources
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017
• The Impact of Trust in the News Media on Online News Consumption and Participation
• Something Old, Something New: Digital Media and the Coverage of Climate Change
• Paying for Online News: A Comparative Analysis of Six Countries
• Analysis of the Relation Between the Impact of Public Service Media and Private Media
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2016
• The Public and News About the Environment
• Giving Computers a Nose for News: Exploring the Limits of Story Detection and Verification
• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2015: Supplementary Report
• Expertise as an Object: An Ontological Study of Cryptology Research in the United Kingdom from 1970 to 2000