Publications

Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Sumitra Badrinathan, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2025). Who Wants Impartial News? Investigating Determinants of Preferences for Impartiality in 40 Countries. International Journal of Communication.

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Waqas Ejaz, Mitali Mukherjee, Richard Fletcher (2025). Climate Change and News Audiences Report 2024: Analysis of News Use and Attitudes in Eight Countries. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Waqas Ejaz, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Shannon C. McGregor (2024). What Do People Want? Views on Platforms and the Digital Public Sphere in Eight Countries. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Simge Andi, Sumitra Badrinathan, Kirsten Eddy, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Camila Mont'Alverne, Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Anne Schulz, Benjamin Toff, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2024). The Link Between Changing News Use and Trust: Longitudinal Analysis of 46 Countries. Journal of Communication.

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Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Sayan Banerjee, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2024). Exposure to Partisan News and Its Impact on Social Polarization and Vote Choice: Evidence From the 2022 Brazilian Elections. The International Journal of Press/Politics.

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Felix M. Simon, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2024). How Generative AI Chatbots Responded to Questions and Fact-checks about the 2024 UK General Election. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Amy Ross Arguedas, Camila Mont'Alverne, Benjamin Toff, Richard Flecther, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2024). Ritual Reinforcement: Habit, Emotion, and Identity as Attributes of Trust in News. Journalism Studies.

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Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Sayan Banerjee, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2024). The Electoral Misinformation Nexus: How News Consumption, Platform Use, and Trust in News Influence Belief in Electoral Misinformation. Public Opinion Quarterly.

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Richard Fletcher (2024). What Social Networks Did Political Parties Use Most in 2024?. UK Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign.

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Craig T. Robertson, Amy Ross Arguedas, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2024). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2024). What Does the Public in Six Countries Think of Generative AI in News?. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Waqas Ejaz, Sacha Altay, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2024). Trust Is Key: Determinants of False Beliefs about Climate Change in Eight Countries. New Media & Society.

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Sacha Altay, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2024). News Participation is Declining: Evidence from 46 Countries between 2015 and 2022. New Media & Society.

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Richard Fletcher, Marina Adami, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2024). 'I'm Unable To': How Generative AI Chatbots Respond when Asked for the Latest News. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Sora Park, Caroline Fisher, Richard Fletcher, Uwe Dulleck, Janet Fulton, Agata Stepnik, Shengnan Pinker Yao (2024). Exploring Responses to Mainstream News Among Heavy and Non-News Users: From High-Effort Pragmatic Scepticism to Low Effort Cynical Disengagement. New Media & Society.

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Richard Fletcher (2024). How Many News Websites Block AI Crawlers?. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Waqas Ejaz, Mitali Mukherjee, Richard Fletcher (2023). Climate Change News Audiences: Analysis of News Use and Attitudes in Eight Countries. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Sayan Banerjee, Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Benjamin Toff, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2023). Strategies for Building Trust in News: What the Public Say they Want Across Four Countries. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Amy Ross Arguedas, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2023). Shortcuts to Trust: Relying on Cues to Judge Online News from Unfamiliar Sources on Digital Platforms. Journalism.

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Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Sumitra Badrinathan, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2023). Domain-Specific Influence on Facebook: How Topic Matters When Assessing Influential Accounts in Four Countries. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media.

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher (2023). Comparing the Platformization of News Media Systems: A Cross-Country Analysis. European Journal of Communication.

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Kirsten Eddy, Craig T. Robertson, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2023). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Camila Mont'Alverne, Sumitra Badrinathan, Amy Ross Arguedas, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2023). "Fair and Balanced": What News Audiences in Four Countries Mean When They Say They Prefer Impartial News. Journalism Studies.

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Amy Ross Arguedas, Sayan Banerjee, Camila Mont'Alverne, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2023). News for the Powerful and Privileged: How Misrepresentation and Underrepresentation of Disadvantaged Communities Undermine Their Trust in News. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Sacha Altay, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher (2023). News Can Help! The Impact of News Media and Digital Platforms on Awareness of and Belief in Misinformation. The International Journal of Press/Politics.

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Julia Kling, Florian Toepfl, Neil Thurman, Richard Fletcher (2022). Mapping the Website and Mobile Audiences of Russia's Foreign Communication Outlets, RT and Sputnik, Across 21 Countries. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review.

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Waqas Ejaz, Mitali Mukherjee, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2022). How We Follow Climate Change: Climate News Use and Attitudes in Eight Countries. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Camila Mont'Alverne, Sumitra Badrinathan, Amy Ross Arguedas, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2022). The Trust Gap: How and Why News on Digital Platforms is Viewed More Sceptically Versus News in General. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Sacha Altay, Rasmus Klies Nielsen, Richard Fletcher (2022). Quantifying the "Infodemic": People Turned to Trustworthy News Outlets During the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media.

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Amy Ross Arguedas, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2022). "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. Journalism Studies.

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Anne Schulz, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2022). The Role of News Media Knowledge For How People Use Social Media For News in Five Countries. New Media & Society.

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher (2022). Concentration of Online News Traffic and Publishers' Reliance on Platform Referrals: Evidence From Passive Tracking Data in the UK. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media.

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Neil Thurman, James Sly, Bartosz Wilczek, Richard Fletcher (2022). 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. International Communication Gazette.

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Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher (2022). The Watchdog Press in the Doghouse: A Comparative Study of Attitudes about Accountability Journalism, Trust in News, and News Avoidance. The International Journal of Press/Politics.

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Craig T. Robertson, Kirsten Eddy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2022). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Amy Ross Arguedas, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2022). Snap Judgements: How Audiences Who Lack Trust in News Navigate Information on Digital Platforms. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Amy Ross Arguedas, Craig T. Robertson, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2022). Echo Chambers, Filter Bubbles and Polarisation: A Literature Review. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2021). Depth and Breadth: How News Organisations Navigate Trade-offs Around Building Trust in News. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2021). Overcoming Indifference: What Attitudes Towards News Tell Us About Building Trust. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Craig T. Robertson, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2021). How Many People Live in Politically Partisan Online News Echo Chambers in Different Countries?. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media.

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Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2021). More Diverse, More Politically Varied: How Social Media, Search Engines and Aggregators Shape News Repertoires in the United Kingdom. New Media & Society.

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Anne Schulz, Simge Andi, Craig T. Robertson, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2021). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Anne Schulz, Richard Fletcher (2021). An Ongoing Infodemic: How People in Eight Countries Access News and Information about Coronavirus A Year Into the Pandemic. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2021). Listening to What Trust in News Means to Users: Qualitative Evidence from Four Countries. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2020). What We Think We Know and What We Want to Know: Perspectives on Trust in News in a Changing World. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher (2020). How News Audiences Think About Misinformation Across the World. Disinformation and Fake News.

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Felix M. Simon (2020). Communications in the Coronavirus Crisis: Lessons for the Second Wave. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Richard Fletcher (2020). 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. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2020). Consistent and Widespread Belief in the Threat of COVID-19 to the UK Economy. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher (2020). Democratic Creative Destruction? The Effect of a Changing Media Landscape on Democracy. Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field and Prospects for Reform.

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Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2020). News Avoidance in the UK Remains High as Lockdown Restrictions are Eased. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Felix M. Simon, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2020). Information Inequality in the UK Coronavirus Communications Crisis. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2020). Majority Think UK Government COVID-19 Response Worse than Other Developed Countries, Almost Half Say Response Too Focused on Protecting the Economy. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Richard Fletcher (2020). Social Media Very Widely Used, Use for News and Information about COVID-19 Declining. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2020). Even Low News Users Say They Are Willing to Take Preventive Measures Against COVID-19. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Anne Schulz, Simge Andi, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2020). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2020). Are Netflix and Spotify Subscribers More Likely to Pay for Online News? Comparative Analysis of Data from Six Countries. International Journal of Communication.

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Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2020). Trust in UK Government and News Media COVID-19 Information Down, Concerns Over Misinformation from Government and Politicians Up. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2020). Initial Surge in News Use Around Coronavirus in the UK has been Followed by Significant Increase in News Avoidance. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Anne Schulz, Richard Fletcher, Marina Popescu (2020). Are News Outlets Viewed in the Same Way by Experts and the Public? A Comparison across 23 European Countries. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Richard Fletcher (2020). UK Public Opinion Polarised on News Coverage of Government Coronavirus Response, and Concern over Misinformation. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2020). News Media Broadly Trusted as Source of Coronavirus Information, Views of UK Government Response Highly Polarised. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Nic Newman, J. Scott Brennen, Philip N. Howard (2020). Navigating the 'Infodemic': How People in Six Countries Access and Rate News and Information about Coronavirus. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Jane Suiter, Richard Fletcher (2020). Polarization and Partisanship: Key Drivers of Distrust in Media Old and New?. European Journal of Communication.

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Annika Sehl, Richard Fletcher, Robert G. Picard (2020). Crowding Out: Is there Evidence that Public Service Media Harm Markets? A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Commercial Television and Online News Providers. European Journal of Communication.

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Richard Fletcher, Nic Newman, Anne Schulz (2020). A Mile Wide, an Inch Deep: Online News and Media Use in the 2019 UK General Election. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Neil Thurman, Thiemo Hensmann, Richard Fletcher (2020). Large, Loyal, Lingering? An Analysis of Online Overseas Audiences for UK News Brands. Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Alessio Cornia, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2019). How Polarized are Online and Offline News Audiences? A Comparative Analysis of Twelve Countries. The International Journal of Press/Politics.

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Neil Thurman, Richard Fletcher (2019). Effects of a Magazine’s Move to Online-Only: Post-Print Audience Attention and Readership Retention Revisited. Journalism Practice.

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Richard Fletcher, Meera Selva (2019). How Brexit Referendum Voters Use News. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2019). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Joy Jenkins (2019). Polarisation and the News Media in Europe. European Parliamentary Research Service.

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Francis L. F. Lee, Michael Che-Ming Chan, Hsuan-Ting Chen, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher (2019). Consumptive News Feed Curation on Social Media as Proactive Personalization: A Study of Six East Asian Markets. Journalism Studies.

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Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2018). News Brand Attribution in Distributed Environments: Do People Know Where They Get Their News?. New Media & Society.

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Neil Thurman, Richard Fletcher (2018). Are Newspapers Heading Towards Post-Print Obscurity? A Case-Study of The Independent’s Transition to Online-Only. Digital Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2018). Automated Serendipity: The Effect of Using Search Engines on News Repertoire Diversity and Balance. Digital Journalism.

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2018). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher (2018). Platform Reliance, Information Intermediaries, and News Diversity: A Look at the Evidence. Digital Dominance: The Power of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple.

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Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2018). Generalised Scepticism: How People Navigate News on Social Media. Information, Communication & Society.

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Richard Fletcher, Alessio Cornia, Lucas Graves, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2018). Measuring the Reach of 'Fake News' and Online Disinformation in Europe. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Neil Thurman, Richard Fletcher (2017). Has Digital Distribution Rejuvenated Readership? Revisiting the Age Demographics of Newspaper Consumption. Journalism Studies.

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher (2017). Bias, Bullshit and Lies: Audience Perspectives on Low Trust in the Media. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2017). Are People Incidentally Exposed to News on Social Media? A Comparative Analysis. New Media & Society.

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Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2017). Are News Audiences Increasingly Fragmented? A Cross‐National Comparative Analysis of Cross‐Platform News Audience Fragmentation and Duplication. Journal of Communication.

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Richard Fletcher, Steve Schifferes, Neil Thurman (2017). Building the 'Truthmeter': Training Algorithms to Assess the Credibility of Social Media Sources. Convergence.

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2017). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Sora Park (2017). The Impact of Trust in the News Media on Online News Consumption and Participation. Digital Journalism.

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James Painter, María Carmen Erviti, Richard Fletcher, Candice Howarth, Silje Kristiansen, Bienvenido León, Alan Ouakrat, Adrienne Russell, Mike S. Schäfer (2016). Something Old, Something New: Digital Media and the Coverage of Climate Change. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2016). Paying for Online News: A Comparative Analysis of Six Countries. Digital Journalism.

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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Annika Sehl, David A. L. Levy (2016). Analysis of the Relation Between the Impact of Public Service Media and Private Media. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (2016). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2016. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher (2016). The Public and News About the Environment. Something Old, Something New: Digital Media and the Coverage of Climate Change.

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Neil Thurman, Steve Schifferes, Richard Fletcher, Nic Newman, Stephen Hunt, Aljosha Karim Schapals (2016). Giving Computers a Nose for News: Exploring the Limits of Story Detection and Verification. Digital Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher, Damian Radcliffe, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Nic Newman (2015). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2015: Supplementary Report. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Richard Fletcher (2015). Expertise as an Object: An Ontological Study of Cryptology Research in the United Kingdom from 1970 to 2000. University of Surrey.

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