Please consider helping my student Laura Müller by answering her English language survey on the perception of Instagram ads. The survey is anonymous & only takes around 5 minutes:

www.soscisurvey.de/bachelorarbe...

Laura is completing her BA thesis at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social's @ifkw.bsky.social.

Which distribution platforms – from print to podcasts – do journalists around the world produce for? 🗞️ 📨 📻 📺 📱 🌍

Which media formats – from audio to animation – do they produce in? 📽️ 📷 🎤 📈 ✍ 🌎

Read the new Worlds of Journalism Study Report to find out:

www.worldsofjournalism.org/wp-content/u...

Thanks to my co-authors from @ifkw.bsky.social ky.social: Sorsha Sabus and @sinatk.bsky.social. Thanks also to the @datajconf.com for the opportunity to present the paper.

openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/35...

On 31 Dec, the @ajc.com will quit print & go online-only. What will happen to the audience attention it attracts? If the pattern's the same as @richardfletcher.bsky.social & I found for @the-independent.com, then none of the print reading mins will move online:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pornhub is to suspend their site in France in protest at a new age verification law:

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

In our research, we found that 41% of 15–17-year-olds in France had seen porn via such porn sites, on average within the last month:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? And how has all this changed in the last decade? Our new @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report answers these questions. It's based on our representative survey of 1130 UK journalists:

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/uk-journalis...

What a relief to have replaced the Twitter/X feed on my website's homepage with a feed of my @bsky.app posts. It feels so much better. A 3rd party solution integrated nicely with the Contao CMS I'm using:

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What will happen to the audience attention it attracts? If the pattern's the same as @richardfletcher.bsky.social & I found for @the-independent.com, then none of the print reading minutes will move online:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to Ray Snoddy for mentioning our new paywalls study in his column in the @themedialeader.bsky.social.

Link to the full study here:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We compare audience perceptions of news videos made with various levels of AI-involvement (high, medium & none). On average consumers liked automated news videos as much as manually made ones, but only when the automation process involved human post-editing:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...