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My new book – Media Change: Contemporary Cases, Consequences, and Conceptualizations – will be published by Wiley in June 2026. The book’s twelve chapters dissect pressing media topics, ranging from the role of AI and automation in news production to the intricate efforts by democratic states to curb underage access to harmful online content. These chapters not only provide insights into their individual topics but also serve as illustrative cases of broader media transformations. The introductory and concluding chapters weave together lessons about media change, exploring not only the “what” and “how” but also the nuanced resistance, uneven progress, occasional reversals, and the influence of non-technological factors. Pre-order at Wiley.com, Amazon.com, and all major online booksellers.

My new report surveys how journalists and their newsrooms are using artificial intelligence and their attitudes and approaches towards the technology.

Who are UK journalists? How do they work? What do they think? And how has all this changed in the last decade? My new report answers these questions.

Our new study has found that readers find traditionally-crafted news articles more comprehensible than articles produced with automation. Deficiencies readers perceive in the automated articles’ handling of numbers and word choice partly explain why they were harder to understand.

With the vast array of options of what to watch online, have you ever wondered why you picked that new comedy or that old documentary? Would you have chosen to watch them if they were on terrestrial TV? How much were you nudged to choose them by subtle prompts from the online streaming platforms?

News organizations—including Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Economist—have been using A.I. powered video services to meet growing audience demand for audio-visual material. Our new research shows that such automated production of news videos is better with human supervision.