OUR NEXT WEBINAR

We hope you've enjoyed our past webinars. If you couldn't join us (or if you want to review our conversations), you can watch our webinars with Meera Selva, Anne Schulz and Rasmus Nielsen at any time. 

Navigating the 'infodemic': findings from our new report

The topic. On Wednesday 15 April the Reuters Institute publishes a new report on news consumption during the COVID-19 crisis. The report uses survey data collected in late March and early April 2020 in six countries: Argentina, Germany, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and the US.

Our research. The report documents how people accessed news and information about COVID-19 in the early stages of the global pandemic, how they rate the trustworthiness of the different sources and platforms they rely on, how much misinformation they say they encounter, and their knowledge of and responses to the coronavirus crisis.

The webinar. The lead author of the report is Rasmus Nielsen, Director of the Reuters Institute and Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford. Rasmus will explain the key findings of the report on a webinar on Thursday 16 April at 13:30, UK time. 

Suggested reading on COVID–19

Here are a few links that can help you navigate the current pandemic as a journalist and understand the impact it's having on our industry and on misinformation worldwide. 

📑Our factsheet on types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation. | By J. Scott Brennen, Felix Simon, Philip N. Howard and Rasmus Nielsen 

🦠Advice from public health experts Peter Drobac and Trudie Lang on how journalists can help stop the spread of the outbreak. | By Eduardo Suárez

💰What the pandemic may mean for the business of news. | By Rasmus Nielsen

🤥 What our past research says about misinformation in the context of COVID–19. | By J. Scott Brennen and Rasmus Nielsen   

🧶A thread with many examples of great journalism on the pandemic. | From our Twitter account

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Today's email was written by Eduardo Suárez and Matthew Leake.