Search engines, social media sites, and messaging apps accounts for a larger and larger share of online news use, presenting news organizations with new opportunities and challenges. The last year has seen a rapid development of the relationship between search engines, social media, and news media, with the increasing importance of referrals and of off-site publishing, including important new initiatives like Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP, and SnapChat Discover. In this panel, we discuss the evolving relationship between news media and digital intermediaries and what it means for journalism.

Organised in association with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.