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Serving on Council of Europe MSI-RES Committee of Experts on Increasing Resilience of Media

I recently agreed to serve on the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Increasing Resilience of Media (MSI-RES). The committee will focus on two aspects of media resilience. The first is “the use of digital tools including artificial intelligence for journalism/by journalists”, and the second is “good practices for sustainable media financing”.

Giving evidence to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee

On February 22nd 2022 I gave oral evidence to the House of Lords' Communications and Digital Committee’s inquiry into BBC future funding. You can watch a video of the session here.

New Project: The Rise of Mistrust

I’m very pleased to announce that our project proposal on ‘The Rise of Mistrust: Digital Platforms and Trust in the News’ was accepted by the Australian Research Council. The project, which will be led by Chief Investigators Sora Park and Caroline Fisher from the University of Canberra and Terry Flew and Uwe Dulleck from Queensland University of Technology, will explore the rise of mistrust in contemporary media environments in four countries (Australia, UK, Singapore and South Korea).

New website

Like many academics I’ve been meaning to build a personal website for ages. This weekend I finally got around to it, after learning about static website generator Hugo and the Academic theme.