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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.

Back in 2018, some US news sites—like the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune—shut out EU visitors in order to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). My new study shows these temporary blocks had long-term negative effects on EU visitor numbers, even years later.

My new study shows displacement effects, circumvention, and legislative scope may limit the efficacy of French attempts to prevent under 18s accessing online pornography. The study has implications for legislators and regulators in democratic countries beyond France as they too grapple with the challenges of regulating online pornography. Furthermore, it extends the often contradictory and/or limited evidence that exists about adolescents' consumption of pornography.