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Digital News Report 2023. Episode 1: What you need to know

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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In this opening episode of our series, we’ll explore the key findings from our Digital News Report 2023, the most comprehensive study of news consumption worldwide.

In this opening episode of our series, we’ll explore the key findings from our Digital News Report 2023, the most comprehensive study of news consumption worldwide. We will discuss some of the big headlines from the report including how people are accessing news, perceptions of algorithms’ role in news, subscriptions, news avoidance and a whole lot more.

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Nic Newman is the lead author of the Digital News Report and is a Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute. He is also a consultant on digital media, working actively with news companies on product, audience, and business strategies for digital transition. He writes an annual report for the Institute on future media and technology trends.
Rasmus Nielsen is co-author of the Digital News Report, Director of the Reuters Institute and Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford. His work focuses on changes in the news media, political communication, and the role of digital technologies in both.
Our host Federica Cherubini is Head of Leadership Development at the Reuters Institute. She is an expert in newsroom operations and organisational change, with more than ten years of experience spanning major publishers, research institutes and editorial networks around the world.

A full transcript can be found on our website: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-podcast-digital-news-report-2023-episode-1-what-you-need-know

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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Federica Cherubini

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Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Date Added: 12/06/2023

Duration: 00:34:23

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Professor Brian Marsden

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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Georgina Ferry interviews Brian Marsden, Associate Professor for Data Management and Research Informatics, 3 February 2023.

Topics discussed include (00:00:46) early interest in science, degree studies at Cambridge, DPhil at Oxford in Biochemistry, work at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego and BioFocus; (00:02:29) computational chemistry; (00:07:35) Structural Genomics Consortium; (00:18:34) first awareness of COVID-19; (00:19:56) ELISA assay development for surveillance, including development of database and web platform; (00:26:59) COMBAT project; (00:35:00) collaboration between institutions during the pandemic; (00:36:10) current projects, including collaboration on early stage drug discovery; (00:37:00) impact of the pandemic on work life; (00:38:34) wellbeing support; (00:39:11) personal threat from COVID-19; (00:40:05) communications with civil servants; (00:41:10) wellbeing and working on COVID-19 projects; (00:43:37) changes in approach to work as a result of the pandemic, hopes for the future.

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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medical sciences

computational chemistry

data management & statistical analysis

covid-19 (disease)

Department: Bodleian Libraries

Date Added: 12/06/2023

Duration: 00:44:33

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Omar El Muhanna

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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Georgina Ferry interviews Omar El Muhanna, Senior Operations Manager (Clinical BioManufacturing Facility), 2 February 2023.

Topics discussed include (00:00:39) studies in Engineering, Executive MBA from Northwestern University, work in retail, construction, particularly on projects in the Middle East, involvement in the humanitarian response to the civil war in Syria, humanitarian aid including moving resources and people; (00:07:03) move to Oxford in November 2019, work with Cath Green at the Clinical BioManufacturing Facility (CBF) from January 2020; (00:13:20) first awareness of COVID-19; (00:14:45) meeting with Cath Green and Sarah Gilbert in January 2020; (00:18:15) first steps taken to change operations to pivot towards a focus on COVID-19, including early discussions with the Senior Qualified Person, Dr Eleanor Berrie and Dr Richard Tarrant; (00:24:55) work on business continuity, emergency preparation and disaster recovery plans; (00:32:24) opportunity to implement knowledge in the context of a serious emergency response; (00:34:50) challenges faced when implementing the programme; (00:39:45) issues around shipments in March 2020; (00:44:39) charter plane hire to ship vaccine material to Italy; (00:53:58) interactions with AstraZeneca; (01:00:43) finalising of the manufacturing work undertaken at the CBF and shift of priorities and workload; (01:09:20) work started after COVID phase, including a pivot back towards work on Ebola, process of manufacturing expansion; (01:11:20) position of the CBF under the Pandemic Sciences Institute, including capacity expansion to work on multiple projects; (01:12:50) long-term value proposition of the CBF, including expansion and restructuring of team; (01:17:16) changes in approach to work and hopes for the future.

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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Omar El Muhanna

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medical sciences

astrazeneca (firm)

covid-19 (disease)

Department: Bodleian Libraries

Date Added: 12/06/2023

Duration: 01:19:44

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Dr Alex Mentzer

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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Georgina Ferry interviews Alex Mentzer, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, 25 January 2023.

Topics discussed include (00:00:40) early interest in medicine, travels abroad in Nigeria, studies in Biochemistry at Imperial College London, Masters in Molecular Medicine, medical school at University College London, work at the Royal Free Hospital, London Infectious Diseases Department, research and training opportunities, including PhD at Oxford under supervisor Adrian Hill; (00:07:40) diseases studied whilst in Uganda; (00:09:40) career steps after DPhil, including Academic Clinical Lectureship at Oxford; (00:11:38) first awareness of COVID-19, collaboration with Julian Knight to collect samples from potential COVID-19 patients in hospital and the community; (00:22:31) main research questions addressed by collecting blood samples; (00:27:14) number of individuals enrolled in the research, clinical data captured; (00:32:11) work relating to virus variants; (00:33:39) use of serum in neutralisation assays against variants; (00:35:10) continuing work on COVID-19; (00:37:14) proportion of the population susceptible to the virus, including role of HLA (human leukocyte antigens); (00:40:19) international collaborations developed through the pandemic; (00:45:11) importance of treating patients with serious infections; (00:47:23) personal threat from COVID-19; (00:51:30) changes to working hours and daily routine; (00:53:55) wellbeing support during the pandemic; (00:58:30) early sampling participant involvement; (01:05:27) changes in approach to work as a result of the pandemic and hopes for the future.

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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medical sciences

communicable diseases

clinical medicine

covid-19 (disease)

Department: Bodleian Libraries

Date Added: 12/06/2023

Duration: 01:07:47

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Dr Lennard Lee

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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Georgina Ferry interviews Lennard Lee, Academic Clinical Lecturer and Medical Oncologist, 19 January 2023.

Topics discussed include (00:00:49) early interest in medicine, studies at Cambridge, PhD at the Wellcome Trust in Oxford; (00:03:28) Junior group leader in Birmingham and training as a cancer doctor; (00:05:32) first awareness of COVID-19; (00:07:16) impact of the pandemic on cancer patients in Birmingham; (00:12:18) UK COVID Cancer Programme, work with Gary Middleton; (00:16:55) data results generated from the programme, publication of paper in the Lancet; (00:18:35) return to Oxford at the end of 2020; (00:20:51) lateral flow moonshot, work with Derrick Crook, Tim Peto and Sir John Bell, setting up diagnostic study; (00:31:49) work at the Department of Health on scale-up of lateral flow test programme; (00:34:49) reporting of results; (00:38:07) continuing interest in chemotherapy patients who were unprotected by vaccination; (00:40:15) The Forgotten 500K; (00:41:58) listening to and supporting the vulnerable, providing them with information, enabling them to exert their voice; (00:43:48) the risk to immunocompromised individuals; (00:47:07) influence on policy; (00:48:55) participation in Independent SAGE; (00:53:03) personal voice and use of Twitter to communicate information to the general public; (00:54:33) training in communication; (00:56:31) current priorities and area of work, including the development of a cancer vaccine; (00:59:17) personalised vaccines for cancer; (01:00:00) work ongoing at Oxford, including collaboration nationally; (01:01:50) personal threat from COVID-19; (01:03:20) redeployment to A&E; (01:05:09) personal and family experience of COVID-19 infection; (01:08:34) personal wellbeing derived from work undertaken during the pandemic; (01:09:34) changes in approach to work as a result of the pandemic.

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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medical sciences

covid-19 (disease)

Department: Bodleian Libraries

Date Added: 12/06/2023

Duration: 01:12:36

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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Georgina Ferry interviews Helen Salisbury, GP and Senior Medical Education Fellow, 19 January 2023.

Topics discussed include (00:00:40) early interest in medicine, neurology, general practice; (00:03:18) involvement in teaching at Oxford, including communications skills course for medical students; (00:08:30) activity and engagement on Twitter, standing for parliament; (00:09:43) columnist at the British Medical Journal and Take a Break magazine; (00:13:58) first awareness of COVID-19; (00:17:08) changes to seeing patients in-person at the practice, buzzer system and telephone triage; (00:19:31) communication and messaging, including missteps on definitions of symptoms defining COVID-19, herd immunity; (00:24:57) lack of testing at the start of the pandemic; (00:29:55) infrastructure issues; (00:33:45) Independent SAGE; (00:38:50) vaccine volunteer; (00:40:35) campaign by GP surgeries around vaccine drive; (00:46:00) PPE procurement during the pandemic, including government VIP lanes; (00:50:49) changes to seeing patients in-person again, including remote consulting; (00:56:42) colleague response to media profile; (01:01:49) personal threat from COVID-19; (01:03:43) impact on ability to work, as a result of the pandemic; (01:05:16) changes in approach to work as a result of the pandemic and hopes for the future.

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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Helen Salisbury

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medical sciences

clinical medicine

covid-19 (disease)

Department: Bodleian Libraries

Date Added: 12/06/2023

Duration: 01:10:52

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Professor Neelika Malavige

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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Georgina Ferry interviews Neelika Malavige, Academic Visitor and Professor (University of Sri Jayewardenepura), 18 January 2023.

Topics discussed include (00:01:02) early interest in science, particularly biology, medical school and research work, PhD at Oxford working under the supervision of Graham Ogg at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Immunology; (00:03:40) interest and work on dengue fever in Sri Lanka; (00:09:29) first awareness of COVID-19; (00:12:37) impact of COVID-19 on Sri Lanka; (00:15:55) PCR testing at University of Sri Jayewardenepura laboratory, including virus sequencing; (00:20:16) work on antibodies for COVID-19, PCR testing and Sri Lanka's zero COVID policy; (00:25:13) work of Tao Dong and Graham Ogg on T-cells, collaboration of the groups at Oxford; (00:30:00) collaboration with Alain Townsend's group, work on a community-based serosurvey; (00:33:00) immunogenicity studies for Covovax; (00:34:30) immunogenicity studies for various vaccines; (00:40:00) comparison of different vaccines; (00:42:17) coverage of vaccination in population; (00:45:44) impact on dengue work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; (00:51:50) dengue vaccine developed by Takeda; (00:54:22) severe dengue in pregnant women and in people with comorbidities, work with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative; (00:57:56) international collaboration as a result of the pandemic; (01:00:46) impact of the pandemic and zero COVID policy on personal and work life; (01:06:36) changes in approach to work as a result of the pandemic and hopes for the future.

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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Neelika Malavige

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medical sciences

communicable diseases

covid-19 (disease)

Department: Bodleian Libraries

Date Added: 12/06/2023

Duration: 01:07:52

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Dr Edward O'Neill

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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Georgina Ferry interviews Edward O'Neill, Postdoctoral Researcher (Department of Oncology) and vaccine volunteer, 12 January 2023.

Topics discussed include (00:00:30) early interest in science, PhD studies in chemistry at the University of Sydney, undergraduate studies and government work in Australia, interest in immunology; (00:05:13) current interest and work at Oxford, including an injected targeted therapy for tumours; (00:06:45) first awareness of COVID-19, changes to work including remote working, life under lockdown conditions; (00:14:25) Oxford vaccine trial involvement; (00:21:17) eligibility criteria to participate for the vaccine trial; (00:23:18) receiving the first trial dose on 23rd April 2020, including health screening, media involvement; (00:37:41) hoax stories and disinformation around the trial, interviews with U.K. and Australian media; (00:45:31) work of the Jenner vaccine team; (00:46:21) interest in vaccine development; (00:48:24) media interviews, social media use; (00:54:22) follow-up procedure after receiving the vaccine, including unblinding stage; (01:05:20) volunteering for future clinical trials; (01:10:07) disinformation and vaccine hesitancy; (01:15:14) return to work, uncertainty around funding and status, lasting legacy of COVID-19 vaccines. Note: the following sections of audio are redacted (00:23:46) to (00:23:50); (00:34:53) to (00:35:00).

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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medical sciences

covid-19 (disease)

Department: Bodleian Libraries

Date Added: 12/06/2023

Duration: 01:31:49

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Dr Emma Flint

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Georgina Ferry interviews Emma Flint, former medical student (Oxford Medical School), 5 January 2023.

Topics discussed include (00:00:50) early interest in medicine, medical studies at university level, voluntary work; (00:04:54) choosing to study at Oxford; (00:06:32) experience of being a medical student at Oxford; (00:07:58) research project on endometriosis; (00:09:25) interest in research in future career; (00:11:43) voluntary experience with the ambulance service as a student first responder; (00:15:20) Spring 2020 and planning for the elective period overseas; (00:21:42) first awareness of COVID-19; (00:25:07) voluntary roles medical students took on during the early stages of the pandemic, including A&E work; (00:32:18) breaks during shifts, working with other student volunteers; (00:34:47) early graduation and work as interim foundation doctor from May 2020; (00:39:42) memorable cases; (00:42:46) patients at end-of-life in A&E; (00:44:39) PPE provisions at the start of the pandemic; (00:51:00) first placement as a foundation doctor; (00:55:16) work as a foundation doctor in intensive care, changes in COVID-19 cases; (00:57:34) experience as a new medical graduate over the pandemic, including disruption of education, experience of training in a pandemic setting, lack of opportunities for new trainees, supervision and career development; (01:03:33) morale of junior doctors; (01:06:40) personal threat from COVID-19, living arrangements during the pandemic under lockdown conditions, symptoms of respiratory illness in summer 2020; (01:10:43) wellbeing as a result of voluntary work and interim foundation doctor role; (01:12:26) changes in attitude and approach to work as a result of the pandemic, including a movement towards a specialism in psychiatry and the importance of mental health. Note: the following sections of audio are redacted owing to interruption (00:17:55) to (00:19:36) and (01:16:57) to (01:18:41).

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Collecting COVID: Oral Histories

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medical sciences

covid-19 (disease)

Department: Bodleian Libraries

Date Added: 12/06/2023

Duration: 01:18:41

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